Bordering Through Exemption: Extracontinental Migration Flows in Mexico
This paper examines Mexico’s governmentality of extracontinental migration in transit to the United States. It argues that, in the context of transit control regimes, exemption is instrumentalised as a bordering mechanism and practice in which transit states assume, react and utilise their role as a...
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Queensland University of Technology
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| description | This paper examines Mexico’s governmentality of extracontinental migration in transit to the United States. It argues that, in the context of transit control regimes, exemption is instrumentalised as a bordering mechanism and practice in which transit states assume, react and utilise their role as a ‘transit’ country. By drawing on statistical information about migrant populations from Asia and Africa intercepted by Mexican authorities from 2010 to 2019, four arrangements are identified: (1) sporadic expulsion, (2) regularisation façade, (3) guardianship and (4) self-deportation. The analysis sheds light on the transformative and adaptive dimension of the Mexican Transit Control Regime and how this is geared towards maintaining its focus on intercepting and deterring Central American migrants in transit to the United States. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-044689b64f774743a533f1017b410fa12022-12-21T21:31:37ZengQueensland University of TechnologyInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy2202-79982202-80052021-09-01103304010.5204/ijcjsd.20392332Bordering Through Exemption: Extracontinental Migration Flows in MexicoAmalia Campos-Delgado0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1458-1243Leiden University This paper examines Mexico’s governmentality of extracontinental migration in transit to the United States. It argues that, in the context of transit control regimes, exemption is instrumentalised as a bordering mechanism and practice in which transit states assume, react and utilise their role as a ‘transit’ country. By drawing on statistical information about migrant populations from Asia and Africa intercepted by Mexican authorities from 2010 to 2019, four arrangements are identified: (1) sporadic expulsion, (2) regularisation façade, (3) guardianship and (4) self-deportation. The analysis sheds light on the transformative and adaptive dimension of the Mexican Transit Control Regime and how this is geared towards maintaining its focus on intercepting and deterring Central American migrants in transit to the United States.https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/2039exemptiontransit regimebordering |
| spellingShingle | Amalia Campos-Delgado Bordering Through Exemption: Extracontinental Migration Flows in Mexico International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy exemption transit regime bordering |
| title | Bordering Through Exemption: Extracontinental Migration Flows in Mexico |
| title_full | Bordering Through Exemption: Extracontinental Migration Flows in Mexico |
| title_fullStr | Bordering Through Exemption: Extracontinental Migration Flows in Mexico |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bordering Through Exemption: Extracontinental Migration Flows in Mexico |
| title_short | Bordering Through Exemption: Extracontinental Migration Flows in Mexico |
| title_sort | bordering through exemption extracontinental migration flows in mexico |
| topic | exemption transit regime bordering |
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