Geographies of Migration and (In)Security

该项目的目标是应对因非法移民人数增加而产生的复杂挑战。这一现象导致国家边境政策收紧，以阻止和排斥非法移民，并导致暴力行为增加，因为有组织犯罪对政策的变化作出反应。通过与边境巡逻队和边境两侧的非法移民接触，该小组将研究最近不断变化的政策如何从根本上改变了边境，影响了移民模式和易受有组织犯罪的影响。该研究小组将利用调查结果和研究来制定未来的政策，以减少暴力和犯罪，同时最大限度地提高人权和保护边境两侧的人民。在将研究生研究助理纳入该项目的同时，PI将收集边境两侧的数据，绘制移民旅程，记录有组织犯罪的各个方面，并纳入服务学习部分。该项目通过创新，以政策为导向的研究，与国家首都的政策制定者以及受政策变化和边境有组织犯罪反应变化影响的人接触。它将通过四个关键创新为女权主义地缘政治，移民和边境研究以及关键安全研究领域做出贡献：（1）利用地理空间技术的新发展绘制和叙述移民旅程（2）通过揭示安全（不安全）的根源以及庇护政策造成移民不稳定和脆弱性的（非）预期后果，为移民和难民研究做出贡献，（3）研究驱逐政策如何以物质方式重塑边界，（4）通过分析驱逐庇护政策如何助长有组织犯罪并自相矛盾地威胁国家安全利益，为关键安全研究做出贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The goal of the project is to tackle the complex challenges created by the increase in the number of refugee-migrants. This phenomenon has led to the tightening of national border policies to deter and exclude refugee-migrants, and increased violence as organized crime responds to shifting policies. By engaging border patrol and refugee-migrants on both sides of the border, the team will examine how recent and changing policies have radically transformed the border and impacted migrant patterns and vulnerability to organized crime. The research team will utilize findings and research to shape future policies that will reduce violence and crime while maximizing human rights and protection for people on both sides of the border. While integrating graduate research assistants in the project, PIs will collect data on both sides of the border, map migrant journeys, document aspects of organized crime, and incorporate a service-learning component.This project addresses border security through a focus on organized crime and migrant vulnerability via innovative, policy-oriented research that engages with policy makers at the nation's capital and with those impacted by changing policies and shifting responses of organized crime at borders. It will contribute to the fields of feminist geopolitics, migration and border studies, and critical security studies through four key innovations: (1) leveraging new developments in geospatial technologies to map and narrate migrant journeys (2) contributing to migration and refugee studies by unveiling root causes of (in)security and the (un)intended consequences of asylum policy that has reproduced precarity and vulnerability for migrants, (3) examining how policies of expulsion are reshaping borders in materials ways, and (4) contributing to critical security studies by analyzing how asylum policies of expulsion empower organized crime and paradoxically threaten national security interests.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.