Steel Walls and Picket Fences
Rematerializing the U.S.-Mexican Border in Ambos Nogales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7187947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Randall H Mcguire (Department of Anthropology; Binghamton University; Binghamton; NY; 13902-6000, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 466-480 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aman.12029 |
| OpenAlex | W1860292074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 32 |
For most of the 20th century, the border cities of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora formed the single transnational community of Ambos Nogales (Both Nogales). Today the people in Ambos Nogales nostalgically remember this border as a picket fence between neighbors. In the mid-1990s, the United States tore down the picket fence and erected a steel wall to enclose the border and prevent undocumented migration and drug smuggling. In 2011, they erected a new and improved steel wall. The rematerialization of the U.S.–Mexican border through Ambos Nogales emerges dialectically from fortification and transgression. The wall is the most visible instrument of the United States' militarization of the border, but the wall does not secure the border. The United States built the wall to limit the agency of crossers. The wall, however, enables agency that the builders did not imagine or desire, and crossers continually create new ways to transgress the barrier. The material border facilitates and restricts the agency of the people of Ambos Nogales, and they rematerialize the border in ways that contravene the interests of the nation-states. This in turn leads the nation-state to rematerialize the border to counter this transgression. Por el siglo XX, las ciudades fronterizas de Nogales, Arizona y Nogales, Sonora conformaron una sola comunidad transnacional de Ambos, Nogales. Hoy en día la gente de Ambos, Nogales solo recuerda con nostalgia esta frontera como una cerca entre vecinos. A mediados de la década de los 90's Estados Unidos demolió la cerca y erigió un muro de acero que bloqueó la frontera para prevenir la inmigración de indocumentados y el contrabando de drogas. En 2011 se construyó un nuevo y mejorado muro de acero; fue así como la reconstrucción de la frontera E.U.–México en Ambos, Nogales surgió del dialecto de fortificación y transgresión. Aunque el muro es el más importante instrumento de militarización en la frontera, éste no la asegura. Estados Unidos construyó el muro para limitar a la agencia de quienes cruzan; sin embargo éste le permite aquello que sus constructores no deseaban ni imaginaban y estos cruces crean continuamente nuevas formas de traspasar la barrera. La frontera material facilita y restringe a la agencia de la gente de Ambos, Nogales; no obstante ellos crearon formas de infringir en los intereses de las naciones-estado, a quienes conllevó a reconstruir la frontera para oponerse a esta transgresión
Agency (philosophy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
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