Seminar | The Haitian Proletarian Wager: The Case of Asylum Seekers on the Tijuana Border (Baja California, Mexico)
Online:
17 March 2022 5.00pm – 6.30pm:
Speaker: Ulises Villafuerte (Dalhousie University, Canada)
The Mexico-US border functions as a material structure, an ideological superstructure, and a hegemonic field of contention, struggle and negotiation. As such, the border reflects an unstable balance of relationships between nation-states, socioeconomic regions, and trajectories of human mobility. Within the complexities that these relationships entail, I want to focus on the processes of working-class formation, particularly in the Haitian migration to Tijuana that began in mid-2016. The encounter of thousands of Haitian migrants and asylum seekers with the regimes of deportation, migration and border asylum was also the encounter with the dynamics of border exploitation, best characterized by the maquiladora industry. Within this process, it would be necessary to consider how the Haitian subjects forged their international projects of immigration through the American continent, the strength and history of the subaltern migratory wagers, and the transnational obligations that Haitians assume and reproduce. Thus, in this talk, I will address the processes through which a Haitian working class took shape on the border, considering how the integral Mexican state (political society and civil society) has administered in Tijuana the movement of various flows of asylum seekers.
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REGARDS CNRS (12 de marzo de 2022). Seminar | The Haitian Proletarian Wager: The Case of Asylum Seekers on the Tijuana Border (Baja California, Mexico). Redial & Ceisal. Recuperado 13 de febrero de 2025 de https://doi.org/10.58079/th0n