Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10027311
B. Kalir
Focusing on the particularities of migration management and bordering in Portugal, contributions to this Special Issue inevitably raise our awareness about a more universal form that increasingly structures the management of mobility in states across Europe and beyond. This universal form that dominates migration management is colonial in its constitution, global in its reach, technologically advanced in its control, dehumanising in its implementation, and oppressive in its essence. Inspired by articles in this Special Issue, this afterword suggests that a key for studying critically the spread of the universal form in its particular instantiation is a reorientation of the ethnographic gaze towards moral subjectivities of bureaucrats and policymakers in institutions that implement oppressive migration policies. We must attempt to trace, analyse and understand how state actors justify servicing a blatant new form of an Arendtian 'banality of evil' that leads to the dehumanisation and exclusion of illegalised migrants and refugees.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijmbs.2019.105813
Nina Amelung, H. Machado
Biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit and control the mobility of selected people not only for migration control but also for crime control. The promise is that while data is mobilised, those declared outlaws will be immobilised. In this article, we discuss reverse patterns of bordering and ordering practices linked to large-scale transnational biometric database infrastructures. We introduce the concept of bio-bordering, using it to capture how the territorial foundations of national state autonomy are partially reclaimed and, at the same time, partially purposefully suspended when establishing biometric data exchange. The case of the Prum system, the mandatory exchange of forensic DNA data amongst the EU member states, serves to portray instances of overcoming and enforcing bio-borders for data flows. Firstly, we explore the different logics of creating permeable bio-borders at work at the EU level which derive from EU attempts of integrating legal, scientific, technical and organisational dimensions. Secondly, we take the Portuguese case as an illustrative example of how latently reinforcing bio-borders counters the ambition of expansive data exchange.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10021300
Liam Midzain Gobin
{"title":"'Come out and live on your land again': sovereignty, borders and the Unist'ot'en camp","authors":"Liam Midzain Gobin","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10021300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10021300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66692277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10021303
Evelyn Encalada Grez
{"title":"Contestations of the heart: Mexican migrant women and transnational loving from rural Ontario","authors":"Evelyn Encalada Grez","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10021303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10021303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66692341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10023719
D. Vecchio, Nisha Toomey
{"title":"An Infrastructure of Grief: Border Imaginaries and Perspectives Gathered from a Journey Along the Route of the Real and Imagined Texas-Mexico Wall","authors":"D. Vecchio, Nisha Toomey","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10023719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10023719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66692353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2014.065069
Ana P Martinez-Donate, Xiao Zhang, M Gudelia Rangel, Melbourne Hovell, Norma-Jean Simon, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Carol Sipan, Sylvia Guendelman
Background: Temporary and unauthorized migrants may face unique obstacles to access health care services in the U.S.
Objective: This study estimated levels of health care access among Mexican migrants returning to Mexico from the U.S. and factors associated with access to health care, with emphasis on the role of modifiable, enabling factors.
Methods: We conducted a pilot probability health care survey of migrants in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico (N=186).
Results: Approximately 42% of migrants reported having used health care services in the U.S. during the past year. Only 38% had a usual source of care and approximately 11% went without needed medical care in the U.S. About 71% of migrants did not have health insurance in the U.S. Lack of health insurance and transportation limitations were significantly related to various access indicators.
Conclusion: These results have implications for future policies and programs aimed to address modifiable health care access barriers faced by these vulnerable and underserved segments of the Mexican migrant population.
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