Close encounters of the deadly kind: Gender, migration, and border (in)security
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59670/ml.v5i2.47Keywords:
migrants, women, border, crossing, deathsAbstract
In this paper, I discuss several findings of my study of migrant women, temporarily suspended in the “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes: those posed by border enforcement measures and those posed by transnational mobility. A pressing issue that emerged from this research was how close women come to encountering death as they side-step the border wall to cross without authorization into the US. Their testimonies shed light on how the intersection of contradictory processes contributes to a humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border in which the likelihood of death is increasingly present.
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