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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Sonoran Borderzone
verfasst von : Vicki Squire
Erschienen in: Post/Humanitarian Border Politics between Mexico and the US: People, Places, Things
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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This chapter examines how relations of privilege and violence are integral to the formation and maintenance of the US–Mexico border, and considers the significance of humanitarian activism across the Sonoran borderzone. There is a longstanding relationship of asymmetry between Mexico and the US, which is evident in contemporary struggles over migration across the Sonoran desert. Such struggles can have lethal consequences where those travelling without authorisation are ‘funnelled’ through the desert as a remote and dangerous terrain. Squire reflects upon the potentials and limitations of humanitarian activism in this context, considering how humanitarianism emerges both as a mechanism of the power and as an ambiguous form of activism that mediates between contending forces of migration and of control.