Borders of America

Soledad Álvarez Velasco is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago.Nicholas De Genova is Professor of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston.Gustavo Dias is Professor of Sociology at the State University of Montes Claros, Brazil.Eduardo Domenech is Research Professor at the National University of Cordoba and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina.

• Introduction. The Borders of (Our) America / Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Eduardo Domenech, and Gustavo Dias 11. Latin American Refugeeships in Canada and the Hemispheric Border Regime / Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring 332. Mobility Control Regime and Clandestine Practices in the US-Mexico Border / Laura Velasco Ortiz 613. Subverting International Bordering Practices: “Illegal Legality” in Southern Mexico / Tanya Basok and Martha Luz Rojas Wiesner 894. Migrant Caravans and the Border Control Regime in Mexico: The Case of the Fifty-Day Caravan During the COVID Pandemic / Margarita NÚÑez Chaim, Amarela Varela Huerta, and Valentina Glockner Fagetti 1175. The Indeterminacy of Transit Through Latin America as Seen from the Colombia-Panama Border / Juan Thomas OrÓÑez and Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga 1436. Illegalized in the Country of “Universal Citizenship” / Soledad Ávarez Velasco 1657. Border Control, COVID-19, and the Criminalization of Irregularized Migration in Chile / Daniel Quinteros, Romina Ramos, and Roberto Dufraix-Tapia 1918. The Politics of Hostility in Argentina: Detention, Expulsion, and Border Rejection / Eduardo Domenech 2219. Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Transformation of Refuge Through the Protection-Control Relationship in the South American Space / Janneth Clavijo 24910. Logistical Lives, Humanitarian Borders: Managing Populations in South-South Circulations / Carolina Moulin 27711. “Europe" in ”Latin America": Illegalized Mobilities, Deportable Bodies, and Contested Sovereignties in the French-Brazilian Borderland / Fabio Santos 30112. The Trans-American Border Regime: Toward a Genealogy / Nicholas De Genova, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Eduardo Domenech, and Gustavo Dias 329Contributors 369Index 375

“The Borders of America stares past the icy violence of border enforcement to reveal how migrants traverse and live beyond America’s manifold boundaries. With hemispheric sweep from Canada through Latin America, this collection shows how migrant mobilities shape border regimes, creating conflicted political spaces where power and authority are always at stake. The volume’s crucial insight: no border stands alone—America’s borders enact and configure a wider global architecture of movement, resistance, and control.”—Brett Neilson, coauthor of The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism"This insightful collection is conceptually sharp and geographically ambitious, exploring broad migration patterns and policing trends while shifting attention to the lives of people working in and migrating across the Americas. Authors based throughout the region critically engage with colonial histories and imperial geographies that wend their way through border externalization." —Alison Mountz, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto