Affecting migration: Public information campaigns and the intimate spatialities of border enforcement
Affecting migration: Public information campaigns and the intimate spatialities of border enforcement
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影响移民：公共信息运动和边境执法的亲密空间性
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10.1177/2399654419833384
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2020
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Jill M. Williams
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作者：
Jill M. Williams
一个广泛的研究机构已经审查了当代边境执法工作的空间变化，提请特别注意边境执法工作如何越来越多地发生在远离边境执法国家的领土边缘。然而，现有的研究主要集中在边境执法工作，调动军事化，安全化和刑事化的战略。作为回应，本文借鉴了情感和女权主义地缘政治学领域的工作，以扩大对边境治理的地点，方式和空间的理解。本文通过深入访谈、档案研究和话语分析，考察了1990年至2012年美国边境执法机构发起的公共信息活动。在这样做的过程中，我展示了这些运动的目的是如何影响移民决策和减少未经授权的移民，通过传播战略精心制作的信息和图像到日常生活的亲密空间，潜在的移民和他们的亲人生活和社交。与军事化边境和移民刑事定罪的硬实力战略不同，公共宣传运动是治理的软实力工具，针对观众的情感登记册，既回应又抵制特定的性别意识形态。正如这一分析所表明的那样，要理解当代边境治理的全部复杂性，就需要我们将分析范围扩大到军事化、安全化和犯罪化等硬实力战略之外，以考察边境治理的软一面，这是一个女权主义政治地理学的见解特别适合的项目。
A broad body of research has examined the shifting spatialities of contemporary border enforcement efforts, drawing particular attention to how border enforcement efforts increasingly take place away from the territorial edges of border enforcing states. However, existing research largely focuses on border enforcement efforts that mobilize strategies of militarization, securitization, and criminalization. In response, this paper draws on work in the fields of emotional and feminist geopolitics, to broaden understandings of the sites, modalities, and spatialities of border governance. Drawing on in-depth interviews, archival research, and discourse analysis, this paper examines public information campaigns launched by US border enforcement agencies between 1990 and 2012. In doing so, I show how these campaigns aim to affect migrant decision-making and reduce unauthorized migration by circulating strategically crafted messages and images into the intimate spaces of everyday life where potential migrants and their loved ones live and socialize. Unlike the hard power strategies of militarized borders and migrant criminalization, public information campaigns work as soft-power tools of governance that target the emotional registers of viewers and both respond to and counter particular gender ideologies. As this analysis suggests, understanding the full complexity of contemporary border governance requires that we broaden the scope of analysis beyond the hard power strategies of militarization, securitization, and criminalization to examine the softer side of border governance, a project that the insights of feminist political geography are particularly well suited for.