2018/02/19 by Ieva Jusionyte · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Global Security and Public Health #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Policing Practices and Perceptions
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/aman.12967
openalex publication_date 2018/02/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
ABSTRACT In southern Arizona, emergency responders rescue and transport unauthorized migrants who get hurt crossing the border, either when scaling the steel fence in urban areas or taking remote and dangerous routes through the desert. Using data collected during ethnographic research between 2015 and 2017 with firefighters trained as EMTs or paramedics, the article shows how Border Patrol's tactical infrastructure produces specific patterns of traumatic injury that are not only routine but also deliberate, allowing us to trace government's responsibility for what it presents as the unintentional consequence of security buildup on the US–Mexico border. [ migration, emergency, infrastructure, border, accident ]