Migration Camps: "The Rise, Endurance, and Fall of Refugee Camps on the U.S-Mexico Border: A case of a sociology of Border Violence"

Presented by the UA College of Social and Behavioral Science's Binational Migration Institute and co-presented by the UA Center for Latin American Studies, School of Mexico Initiatives, School of Mexican American Studies, School of Sociology, and the UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry

Join us Thursday, October 20th  on Zoom!

This talk, "The Rise, Endurance, and Fall of Refugee Camps on the U.S-Mexico Border: A case of a sociology of Border Violence"  will be hosted by New Mexico State University Department of Sociology Assistant Professor  Dr. Bertha Bermúdez Tapia

Talk summary: Dr. Bermúdez Tapia will discuss the rise of migrant camps on the U.S-Mexico border, explaining how transformations in immigration policies generate violent dynamics. Specifically, she will delve into the marginal spaces where migrants experience the now-pervasive practices of mass deportation and restriction of asylum in violent contexts in border cities. Based on an ethnographic design using participant observation, intensive interviews, ethnographic in Tamaulipas, ,Mexico, Dr. Bermúdez Tapia will trace how immigration policies created the conditions for the emergence of migrant camps on the Mexican side of the border, the production of systematic forms of violence, the dehumanization of camps residents, and how migrants developed survival strategies to face violence.