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Construcción y uso de tipologías: movilidad geográfica desigual en la frontera México-Estados Unidos

Journal article published in 2012 by Josiah Heyman
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Abstract

Chapter is in Spanish. This chapter examines the entirety of differentiated and unequal mobility surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border. It starts by challenging the common-sense distinction between migration and mobility. The chapter includes the unequal mobility of capital and labor seen in NAFTA, as well as unequally treated commodities (e.g,, smuggling). It looks at inequality of mobility by nationality (unequal treatment of visas between Mexicans and United Statesians) but also privileged mobility of cross-national elites and near elites (wealthy, management, professionals, academics, etc., that spans both countries). It puts particular emphasis on the concept of privileged and disprivileged mobility and how the latter affects life chances (and death chances), as seen with unauthorized migration. But it also notes the complexity of the topic, such as the considerable kin-based migration and mobility of legal residents between the two countries that facilitates movement of some transnational peasant-workers.