Borders for profit: transnational social exclusion and the production of the NAFTA border

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dc.contributor.authorGingrich, Luann G.
dc.contributor.authorYoung, Julie E. E.
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-08T19:52:13Z
dc.date.available2024-08-08T19:52:13Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionAccepted author manuscript
dc.description.abstractThe focus of this paper is the production of the 'North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)' border that defines a trans/national social field and directs the day-to-day lives of migrant women who organise their livelihoods around the Mexico-Guatemala border. We document and investigate emerging transnational spaces and practices of social exclusion and symbolic violence (Bourdieu) that boost domestic economic interests, externalise social responsibility, privatise social risk, and reinforce national boundaries. We argue that policies and practices in this transnational social field are directed by market logic and that, accordingly, trade agreements and migration management regimes organise place and space to make the most of global inequalities through the simultaneous facilitation and restriction of mobility. Crucially, the coordinated ambivalent control of borders in this transnational marketised social field produces an entrepreneurial context that makes possible a range of profits through the selective symbolic dispossession of nation-states, nationalities, and migrant bodies: economic, political, and social.
dc.description.peer-reviewYes
dc.identifier.citationGingrich, L. G., & Young, J. E. E. (2019). Borders for profit: Transnational social exclusion and the production of the NAFTA border. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 5(1/2), 64-81. https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJMBS.2019.099682
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6848
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInderscience
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Geography and Environment
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.publisher.institutionYork University
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridge
dc.publisher.urlhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJMBS.2019.099682
dc.subjectBorders
dc.subjectSymbolic violence
dc.subjectSexual exclusion
dc.subjectTransnational social field
dc.subjectNAFTA
dc.subjectMexico-Guatemala border
dc.subjectNorth America
dc.subject.lcshMexico--Boundaries--Guatemala
dc.subject.lcshGuatemala--Boundaries--Mexico
dc.titleBorders for profit: transnational social exclusion and the production of the NAFTA border
dc.typeArticle
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