Migrants, activists, and the Mexican State

Framing violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border

Bibliographic Data

ID7724944
AuthorsHeidy Sarabia (0000-0002-1700-0811, California State University, Sacramento, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume24
Issue4
Pages512-529
Publication date2020-05-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2020.1755175
OpenAlexW3017433655
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited39

This article focuses on how different actors frame and respond to violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border, and points to the institutions available for redress – focusing on migrants, activists, and state actors. Through this comparison, the article highlights the way violence along the U.S.-Mexico border becomes pervasive, normalized, and incontestable due to the lack of institutional paths to address this violence, while solidarity work remains largely symbolic and unsupported by the state. This article shows that solidarity with people on the move is often the result of a politicized view that takes into account the violence the border engenders – and that this work is also limited by ideology and legal boundaries. This article draws on media and governmental reports, as well as surveys, interviews, and participant observation data collected in the border town of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, between July 2009 and August 2010

Citizenship · Criminology · Geography · Mexican State · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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