The cat and mouse game at the Mexico-US border: Gendered patterns and recent shifts
The cat and mouse game at the Mexico-US border: Gendered patterns and recent shifts
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1747-7379.2008.00127.x
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发表时间：
2008-06-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Patterson, Evelyn
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作者：
Donato, Katharine M.;Wagner, Brandon;Patterson, Evelyn
本文通过对无证越境过程中的男子和妇女进行审查，为无证越境过程提供了新的见解。我们调查的方式，男性和女性使他们的方式在守卫森严的墨西哥-美国边境的差异，以及在何种程度上，男性和女性在20世纪90年代末是相似的，或不同的，他们的同行谁越过1986年之前和移民政策的实施，旨在减少无证移民。我们发现，在没有法律的证件的情况下，男子和妇女如何越过边境以及他们被逮捕的机会有很大的不同。我们的分析清楚地表明，1986年后美国移民政策的转变导致妇女更依赖于有偿走私者的帮助，在没有证件的情况下过境，但男子更有可能独自过境。此外，1986年之后，与1980年代初移民的妇女相比，首次前往美国的妇女面临更高的被捕风险，但男性面临的风险较低。然而，在积累了一些美国的经验后，1986年之后，与那个十年的早些时候相比，女性和男性被发现的风险都降低了。
This paper provides new insights into the process of undocumented border crossing by examining both men and women in the process. We investigate differences in the ways in which men and women make their way across the well-guarded Mexico-U.S. border, and the extent to which men and women by the end of the 1990s were similar to, or different from, their counterparts who crossed before 1986 and the implementation of immigration policy designed to reduce undocumented migration. We find substantial differences in how men and women crossed the border without legal documents and in their chances of being apprehended. Our analysis makes clear that shifts in U.S. immigration policy after 1986 have led to women's greater reliance on the assistance of paid smugglers to cross without documents but men were more likely to cross alone. Moreover, immediately after 1986, women on first U.S. trips faced higher risks of being apprehended compared to women who migrated in the early 1980s, but men faced lower risks. After accumulating some U.S. experience, however, both women and men faced lower risks of being detected after 1986 compared to earlier in that decade.