RT Article
T1 Border militarization and the reproduction of Mexican migrant labor
JF Social justice
VO 28
IS 2
SP 69
OP 92
A1 Brownell, Peter B.
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747159182
AB Part of a special issue on immigration and boundary policing in an era of globalization. The writer discusses border militarization and the reproduction of Mexican migrant labor. He notes that there was a shift in U.S. border policy in September 1993, when the Immigration and Naturalization Service initiated it “Comprehensive Southwest Border Enforcement Strategy.” He argues that this shift was an attempt to deal with the economic worries of the U.S. electorate. However, he contends that the change in policy not only failed to resolve the issues underlying these concerns, but it may also have exacerbated them. He asserts that the consensus is that the INS has not effectively stemmed the flow of illegal migration, and that migration continues to grow despite unprecedented levels of staffing and capital expenditure on patrolling the border. He concludes that the outcome is a system of undocumented temporary labor migration on which the U.S. agribusiness relies, because it has been unable to get guest-worker proposals passed by Congress.
K1 Immigration law
K1 Border patrols
K1 Undocumented immigrants -- United States
K1 UNDOCUMENTED immigrants
K1 Emigration & immigration in Mexico
K1 Foreign workers -- United States
K1 United States -- Emigration & immigration -- Government policy