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    Constructing a desert labyrinth: The psychological and emotional geographies of deterrence strategy on the U.S. / Mexico border

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    Chambers, Samuel N.
    Boyce, Geoffrey Alan
    Jacobs, W. Jake
    Affiliation
    School of Geography, Development & Environment, The University of Arizona
    Department of Psychology, The University of Arizona
    Issue Date
    2021-02
    Keywords
    Carceral power
    Immigration
    Stressor
    Temporality
    Threat
    Topography
    
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    Elsevier BV
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    Chambers, S. N., Boyce, G. A., & Jacobs, W. J. (2021). Constructing a desert labyrinth: The psychological and emotional geographies of deterrence strategy on the US/Mexico border. Emotion, Space and Society, 38, 100764.
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    Emotion, Space and Society
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    Abstract
    Confinement, hindrance, and time bring anxiety, fear, and stress, often accompanied by confusion and desperation. In the case of undocumented immigrants in the Sonoran Desert, such conditions are manipulated by way of surveillance and policing. These conditions, in combination with physical exertion, augment a physiological stress response that coalesces with existing traumas and fear. We undertake a critical mapping of relations among enforcement infrastructure, migration routes, and measurable features of the physical landscape to demonstrate that a corridor in the region functions as a labyrinth, an outcome of a combination of threats and stressors determined by the spaces migrants find themselves in after crossing the U.S./Mexico border. We argue a biopolitical understanding of current border policies indicates it reduces migrants to bare life rather than using threat, stressors, or trauma as instruments for manipulating behavior. We discuss how this labyrinth works in combination with other mechanisms, including criminalization, detention, abuse, separation, and deportation, to deliver consequences that may deter migration. Despite these efforts, migration routes remain plastic, indicating the continued potential to resist and evade the surveillance technologies and enforcement deployed in the borderlands. We assert that an inevitable result of the desert labyrinth is human mortality. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
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    24 month embargo; available online 21 January 2021
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    1755-4586
    DOI
    10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100764
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