"If you summon the fear, the fear beats you": The illegalization of migrant workers and its effect on their subjectivities
<p>Through ethnographic research conducted in California and Mississippi (2005-2006, 2011 and 2013), I explore the ways in which the illegalization of migrants via immigration laws and other enforcement practices impacts the lives and subjectivities of migrants from Oaxaca and Chiapas who have...
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Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
2015-07-01
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| description | <p>Through ethnographic research conducted in California and Mississippi (2005-2006, 2011 and 2013), I explore the ways in which the illegalization of migrants via immigration laws and other enforcement practices impacts the lives and subjectivities of migrants from Oaxaca and Chiapas who have been denied the possibility of becoming legal United States residents. The study concludes that the “deportation regime,” through a series of laws and control techniques, produces both subjectivities marked by fear and practices of resistance based on solidarity, resourcefulness, courage, and fortitude among migrants who challenge the deportation regime on a daily basis and subvert the subjectivities imposed on them.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee89fb4a8f23483291ee2a42ab51c2ad2022-12-21T19:06:30ZengUniversidad Autonoma de Baja CaliforniaEstudios Fronterizos0187-69612395-91342015-07-0116327598544"If you summon the fear, the fear beats you": The illegalization of migrant workers and its effect on their subjectivitiesAlejandra Aquino Moreschi0Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social-Unidad Pacífico Sur.<p>Through ethnographic research conducted in California and Mississippi (2005-2006, 2011 and 2013), I explore the ways in which the illegalization of migrants via immigration laws and other enforcement practices impacts the lives and subjectivities of migrants from Oaxaca and Chiapas who have been denied the possibility of becoming legal United States residents. The study concludes that the “deportation regime,” through a series of laws and control techniques, produces both subjectivities marked by fear and practices of resistance based on solidarity, resourcefulness, courage, and fortitude among migrants who challenge the deportation regime on a daily basis and subvert the subjectivities imposed on them.</p>http://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/519Migración internacional, políticas de control, ilegalización, deportabilidad, subjetividades, etnografía |
| spellingShingle | Alejandra Aquino Moreschi "If you summon the fear, the fear beats you": The illegalization of migrant workers and its effect on their subjectivities Estudios Fronterizos Migración internacional, políticas de control, ilegalización, deportabilidad, subjetividades, etnografía |
| title | "If you summon the fear, the fear beats you": The illegalization of migrant workers and its effect on their subjectivities |
| title_full | "If you summon the fear, the fear beats you": The illegalization of migrant workers and its effect on their subjectivities |
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| title_full_unstemmed | "If you summon the fear, the fear beats you": The illegalization of migrant workers and its effect on their subjectivities |
| title_short | "If you summon the fear, the fear beats you": The illegalization of migrant workers and its effect on their subjectivities |
| title_sort | if you summon the fear the fear beats you the illegalization of migrant workers and its effect on their subjectivities |
| topic | Migración internacional, políticas de control, ilegalización, deportabilidad, subjetividades, etnografía |
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