The Borders of America

Soledad Alvarez 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 Avarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Eduardo Domenech, and Gustavo Dias 1 1. Latin American Refugeeship in Canada and the Hemispheric Border Regime / Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring 33 2. Mobility Control Regime and Clandestine Practices in the US-Mexico Border / Laura Velasco Ortiz 61 3. Subverting International Bordering Practices: "Illegal Legality" in Southern Mexico / Tanya Basok and Martha Luz Rojas Wiesner 89 4. Migrant Caravans and the Border Control Regime in Mexico: The Case of the Fifty-Day Caravan During the COVID Pandemic / Margarita NUNez Chaim, Amarela Varela Huerta, and Valentina Glockner Fagetti 117 5. The Indeterminacy of Transit Through Latin America as Seen from the Colombia-Panama Border / Juan Thomas OrONez and Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga 143 6. Illegalized in the Country of "Universal Citizenship" / Soledad Avarez Velasco 165 7. Border Control, COVID-19, and the Criminalization of Irregularized Migration in Chile / Daniel Quinteros, Romina Ramos, and Roberto Dufraix-Tapia 191 8. The Politics of Hostility in Argentina: Detention, Expulsion, and Border Rejection / Eduardo Domenech 221 9. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Transformation of Refuge Through the Protection-Control Relationship in the South American Space / Janneth Clavijo 249 10. Logistical Lives, Humanitarian Borders: Managing Populations in South-South Circulations / Carolina Moulin 277 11. "Europe" in "Latin America": Illegalized Mobilities, Deportable Bodies, and Contested Sovereignties in the French-Brazilian Borderland / Fabio Santos 301 12. The Trans-American Border Regime: Toward a Genealogy / Nicholas De Genova, Soledad Avarez Velasco, Eduardo Domenech, and Gustavo Dias 329 Contributors 369 Index

"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, author of, The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism