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    Mujeres en el Cruce: Mapping Family Separation/Reunification at a Time of Border (In)Security

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    O'Leary, Anna Ochoa
    Affiliation
    University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center
    Issue Date
    2007
    Keywords
    United States. -- Immigration Border Patrol -- Officials and employees -- Mexican-American Border Region
    Immigrants -- Mexican-American Border Region
    Women migrant labor -- Mexican-American Border Region
    Families -- Mexican-American Border Region
    
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    The MASRC Working Paper Series © The Arizona Board of Regents
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    The goal of the Mexican American Studies & Research Center's Working Paper Series is to disseminate recent research on the Mexican American experience. The Center welcomes papers from the social sciences, public policy fields, and the humanities. Areas of particular interest include economic and political participation of Mexican Americans, health, immigration, and education. The Mexican American Studies & Research Center assumes no responsibility for statements or opinions of contributors to its Working Paper Series.
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    University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center
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    In this paper I discuss some of the findings in my study of the encounters between female migrants and immigration enforcement authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border. An objective of the research is to ascertain a more accurate picture of women temporarily suspended in the “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes: immigration enforcement and transnational mobility. Of the many issues that have emerged from this research, family separation is most palpable. This suggests a deeply entrenched relationship between immigration enforcement and the transnationalization of family ties. While this relationship may at first not be obvious, women’s accounts of family separation and family reunification show how, in reconciling these contradictory tendencies, migrant mobility is strengthened, which in turn challenges enforcement measures. In this way, the intersection not only sheds light on how opposing forces (enforcement and mobility) converge but also how each is contingent on the other. This analysis is possible in part through the use of a conceptual intersection of diametrically opposed forces, border enforcement and transnational movement, and thus proves useful in examining the transformative nature of globalized spaces.
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    0732-7749
    http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219214
    793455574
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    MASRC Working Paper Series; 34
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