Tamaulipas’ migrant smugglers employed by U.S. farmers
The implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act led to a process of border militarization to prevent immigrants from crossing the frontier without authorization. As a result, migrants penetrated into the United States through less guarded but most dangerous areas. However, migrants were...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2021 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez |
| Repositório: | Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:uacj.mx:oai:oai:erevistas.uacj.mx:article-1005 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://erevistas.uacj.mx/ojs/index.php/noesis/article/view/1005 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Migrant smuggling undocumented migration farming Tamaulipas United States Contrabando de migrantes migración indocumentada agricultura Estados Unidos CIENCIAS SOCIALES info:eu-repo/classification/cti/5 |
| Resumo: | The implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act led to a process of border militarization to prevent immigrants from crossing the frontier without authorization. As a result, migrants penetrated into the United States through less guarded but most dangerous areas. However, migrants were not able to cross the U.S. border on their own; most of them were forced to hire services of migrant smugglers. This article, based on a qualitative methodology, which includes in-depth interviews carried out between January and July of 2012 with 18 migrant smugglers from Tamaulipas, who led migrant workers to be employed in the United States in the farming sector, examines the social and family situation of respondents and examines the causes that guide them to engage into this illegal activity |
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