"Tagged as a criminal": Narratives of deportation and return migration in a Mexico City call center
"Tagged as a criminal": Narratives of deportation and return migration in a Mexico City call center
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10.1057/lst.2014.72
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2015-03-01
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0.6
通讯作者：
Anderson, Jill
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作者：
Anderson, Jill
在这篇文章中，我描述了全球资本主义的联系，美国在过去十年中驱逐和返回移民的急剧上升，以及墨西哥和美国的拉丁裔青年和移民的犯罪化，这些都体现在墨西哥城呼叫中心员工的“呼叫中心叙述”中。呼叫中心是在新自由主义全球化的经济要求下出现的跨国亚文化的背景。对于数量不成比例的回国和被驱逐的青年来说，跨国呼叫中心是一个不确定的避风港、一个支持社区和一个临时的经济安全网。即使前和活跃的拉丁裔帮派成员的存在威胁着数量上的安全，呼叫中心的叙述者也解构了美国和墨西哥“每个移民都是（潜在的）罪犯”的主流话语。而且，作为证词，呼叫中心的叙述从被驱逐出境的“别处”讲述，并返回美国读者，表达了对跨国和移民身份与团结的新视角。
In this essay, I describe the nexus of global capitalism, the precipitous rise in US deportations and return migration over the last decade, and the criminalization of Latino youth and immigrants in Mexico and the United States as manifested in the "call center narratives" of call center employees in Mexico City. The call center is the setting for an emergent transnational subculture within the economic imperatives of neoliberal globalization. For a disproportionate number of returning and deported youth, the transnational call center figures as an uncertain safe haven, a community of support and a temporary economic safety net. Even as the presence of former and active Latino gang members threaten the seeming safety in numbers, the call center narrators deconstruct the dominant discourse of "every immigrant is a (potential) criminal" in both the United States and in Mexico. And, as testimonios, the call center narratives speak from the "elsewhere" of deportation and return to US-based readers, voicing new perspectives on transnational and immigrant identity and solidarity.