The spatial control of migrants on the Chihuahua border
This article tries to link the immigration policies of the United States and Mexico with the narrative developed by Michel Foucault. It shows how racism is the axis on which the State of biopower exercises its claims and its effects of power on bodies and on life. Thus, the current political rationa...
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Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
2023
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| Online Access: | http://erevistas.uacj.mx/ojs/index.php/ChihuahuaHoy/article/view/5741 |
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| Summary: | This article tries to link the immigration policies of the United States and Mexico with the narrative developed by Michel Foucault. It shows how racism is the axis on which the State of biopower exercises its claims and its effects of power on bodies and on life. Thus, the current political rationality goes through the management of the living body of people, their health, and their spatiality. This principle extends to the homicidal function of the State. Two events that occurred on the Chihuahua border demonstrate this. |
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