Geographies of Migration and (In)Security

该项目的目标是解决难民移民人数增加所带来的复杂挑战。这一现象导致国家收紧边境政策，以阻止和排斥难民移民，并随着有组织犯罪对政策变化的反应而增加暴力。通过与边境两侧的边境巡逻队和难民移民进行接触，该小组将研究最近和不断变化的政策如何从根本上改变了边境，并影响了移民模式和对有组织犯罪的脆弱性。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对边境双方人民的保护。在将研究生研究助理纳入项目的同时，pi将收集边境两侧的数据，绘制移民旅程地图，记录有组织犯罪的各个方面，并纳入服务学习的组成部分。该项目通过创新的政策导向研究，重点关注有组织犯罪和移民脆弱性，解决边境安全问题，该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合作。它将通过以下四个关键创新为女权主义地缘政治、移民和边界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来绘制和叙述移民旅程；(2)通过揭示（非）安全的根本原因和（非）庇护政策的后果，为移民和难民研究做出贡献，这些政策使移民重现了不稳定和脆弱性；(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矛盾地威胁国家安全利益，为关键的安全研究做出贡献。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.