Deported, homeless, and into the canal

Environmental structural violence in the binational Tijuana River

Bibliographic Data

ID4601964
AuthorsAlhelí Calderon-Villarreal (0000-0003-1064-7097, San Diego State University, corresponding author), Benjamin Terry (0000-0002-3889-7963, Babraham Institute), Brendan Terry, Joseph Friedman (0000-0002-5225-3267, University of California, Los Angeles), Sara Alejandra González-Olachea (Secretariat of Public Education), Alfonso Chavez (Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana), Margarita Díaz López (Secretariat of Public Education), Lilia Pacheco Bufanda (Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana), Carlos Ruiz Martínez (0000-0001-6596-2807, University of California, Berkeley), Carlos Martinez (0009-0006-1714-0984), Stephanie Elizabeth Medina Ponce (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte), Rebeca Cázares-Adame (Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana), Paola Fernanda Rochin Bochm (Secretariat of Public Education), Georgia Kayser (0000-0002-3273-184X, Human Longevity (United States)), Steffanie A Strathdee (0000-0002-7724-691X), Gabriela Muñoz Meléndez (0000-0002-8898-5048, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte), M Holme (0000-0002-2244-2868, University of Southern California), Seth M Holme, Ietza Bojorquez (0000-0003-1723-7269, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte), Marc Los Huertos (Pomona College), P Bourgois (0000-0002-1600-233X, University of California, Los Angeles)
Year2022
Volume305
Pages115044
Publication date2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115044
PMID35633600
OpenAlexW4280566716
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited48

Human rights to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are routinely violated among El Bordo inhabitants. This is exacerbated by violent policing practices that force unhoused deportees to seek refuge in waterways, and drive water contacts. Furthermore, US-Mexico 'free-trade' agreements drive rapid growth in Tijuana, restrict Mexican environmental regulation enforcement, and drive underinvestment in sewage systems and infrastructure

Criminology · Environmental health · Geography · Harm · Hygiene · Public health · Sanitation · Sociology · Water quality · Water supply · Environmental Science · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology · Environmental Engineering

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