Coordinator: Clive Echagüe Alfaro, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology.
This CLAS working group conveys to Rutgers scholars and graduate students the following questions:
-How are new regimes of deportations, anti-immigrant sentiments, bordering, immigrant detention, and mass incarceration shaping the whole hemisphere of the Americas and shaping a new era of migration policies?
-How is the externalization of borders of northern countries shaping migratory policies and changing the everyday life of borders and migrant corridors in Latin America and the Caribbean?
-How are militarization and the establishment of migrant corridors shaping the everyday life of borderland inhabitants, and how are these changes overlapping vulnerabilities and resistances among borderland inhabitants, migrants, in-transit people, and other actors?
-What kinds of agencies are deploying migrants and border/non-border residents to resist border security policies?
-How do securitist perspectives overlap with insecurities in the everyday lives of Latin American and Caribbean peoples?
-How are security discourses shaping migration policies in the whole hemisphere?
-How does the political economy of security, refugee, and migration policies work, and to whom does it benefit?
These and more questions are posed in a new and changing landscape in the Americas, where, under the name of "security," uncertainty, cruelty, and geopolitical tensions shape mobilities and confinement policies. This working group seeks to create a space for dialogue, care, and collaboration among researchers by sharing experiences and addressing theoretical, epistemological, and methodological questions and reflections. With the end of building networks and gathering Rutgers' colleagues interested in these topics, as well as promoting discussions and research innovations, this interdisciplinary group encompassing diverse territories of the Americas from the United States to Chile, from Sinaloa, passing through the Darien and the Andes, will organize meetings and events.
We invite all Rutgers community members interested in these topics, including inter-doctoral consortium colleagues and beyond. Please write an email expressing your interest in this group to:
Gloria D'Alessio. Darién border.
Clive Echagüe A. Chile-Bolivia Border.