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Carte, Lindsey

Mexican bureaucrats and the everyday restriction of transnational migration in a context of scarcity

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TERRITORY POLITICS GOVERNANCE

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Mexican bureaucrats and the everyday restriction of transnational migration in a context of scarcity. Territory, Politics, Governance. Examining the everyday practices of the state is crucial to our understanding of the multiple ways that governments regulate transnational migration. While geographers have increasingly focused on these practices at a broad, institutional scale and in sites in the Global North, less attention has been given to the mundane and often unseen processes of regulation and restriction that take place beyond physical borders and outside of the formal spaces and practices of the state immigration apparatus in the Global South. This article draws on ethnographic research to understand the contexts in which low-level officials and bureaucrats' practices of policy implementation with the Central American immigrant community in the Mexico-Guatemala border city of Tapachula unfold. It explores how institutional contexts and conditions shape officials' restrictive actions. In particular, it focuses on conditions of material and resource scarcity and how this connects to poor service provision. I argue that officials' actions occur within a complex context in which neoliberal scarcity prevails alongside pressure to increase productivity and long-held, practices. These factors entangle to create spaces that allow everyday restriction to flourish.

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I thank the National Science Foundation [Grant Number 1031777], the Society of Women Geographers and the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas at Austin for their generous support of the research presented in this article.

Agradezco a la National Science Foundation [Número de subvención 1031777], a la Society of Women Geographers y al Instituto Lozano Long de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Texas en Austin por su generoso apoyo a la investigación presentada en este artículo.

10.1080/21622671.2017.1306458

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restriction# scarcity# Central American migrants# migration policy

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2017.1306458

Geography# Political Science

restricción# escasez# migrantes centroamericanos# política migratoria

Ciencias Políticas

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Mexican bureaucrats and the everyday restriction of transnational migration in a context of scarcity

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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

TERRITORY POLITICS GOVERNANCE

Geografía# Ciencias Políticas

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NSF 1031777#University of Texas

NSF 1031777

Society of Women Geographers

Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas at Austin

NSF 1056811

I thank the National Science Foundation [Grant Number 1031777], the Society of Women Geographers and the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas at Austin for their generous support of the research presented in this article.

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