Migration and Border Politics in the South of United States and Spain.
Author Name
María Isolda Perelló Carrascosa
Author Address
Investigation group on migration and development from the Valencian university ( inMIDE Spain).
Email:
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Keywords
Border politics, migration
Abstract
A blockage situation has been created by militarization accompanied by severe internal security measures and borders in the migration corridors of the United States of America with Mexico and of Spain with Morocco as a migration policy tool for the control of irregular migration in the context of global recession, that, instead of restraining the migratory pressure, its obligating the migrants and refugees to take more dangerous routes, increasing their vulnerability and risk of death, converting them furthermore in victims of a system that criminalizes them simply for their condition of non-citizens, with the consequent breach of their human rights.
This communication, sets out to demonstrate the results of the research carried out about the land on the north border of Mexico with the United States of America and in the south border of Spain with Morocco, during the months of October to December of 2012 and of July to September of 2014 respectively, within a project framework of a Doctoral thesis in the area of international migration. Its purpose is to examine and to know better the migratory dynamics caused and to establish a comparative approach between the border management model of the United States and of Spain with their southern neighbors.
So, from a historical point of view the migration policy implemented by both countries will be examined, to determinate what has been the impact of the internal and external control measures, meanwhile this vulnerability situation which migrants without documents face and people seeking asylum is present, and they are discovered or subjected to arrest and expulsion.
ey words: undocumented migration, refugees, migration policy, detention and deportation.
Conference
International Conference on "Global Migration: Rethinking Skills, Knowledge and Culture"