1st Edition
Tensions In The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands From Border Security To Local Insecurity
Introduction Douglas/Agua Prieta: a History PART 1. Who defines security? The US government and non-state actors 1. The securitization of immigration: a rhetoric built around myths 2. The construction of walls as a standard response to insecurity 3. The rise of non-state actors along the U.S.-Mexico border shaping the narrative around national security PART 2. The lived realities of border residents 4. Anglo American borderlanders 5. Mexican American borderlanders 6. Mexican borderlanders 7. Migrants PART 3. The paradoxes of border enforcement: from federal security to local insecurity 8. Disruption of cross-border mobility in an era of border security 9. The economic costs of border security on small border towns 10. The migratory journey: fleeing violence, facing violence. How US and Mexican state violence leads to human insecurity Conclusion
Biography
Cléa Fortuné is Associate Professor at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. She is a member of the Center for Research on the English-Speaking World (CREW EA4399) and the Institut des Langues et Cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie (ILCEA4). Her research examines border issues, security policies, and transnational relations, with a particular focus on the dynamics of the U.S.-Mexico border region. She has contributed to several publications and has co-authored works such as Les États-Unis et l’Amérique latine, de Franklin Delano Roosevelt à Barack Obama, 1933-2017, which explores U.S.-Latin American relations during that period. She also appears in the French and Swiss media to discuss issues related to the U.S.-Mexico border.
