Researcher ORCID Identifier
Graduation Year
2023
Date of Submission
4-2023
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Reader 1
Tomas Summers Sandoval
Reader 2
Arely Zimmerman
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2023 Jasmine Perales
Abstract
Thousands of migrants have died at the United States/Mexico border. This paper analyzes how the current crisis at the border came to be, specifically focusing on the experiences of Mexican migrant women. An analysis of race, racial scripts, and illegality shows how these inform immigration policies and negatively impact migrants. Decades worth of draconian immigration policies have militarized the border and continued to reinforce negative racial scripts of migrants. By centering the testimonies of Mexican migrant women, their structured vulnerabilities come to the forefront as a direct result of immigration policies. Reform of the immigration system needs to occur to begin to ameliorate the crisis at the Southern border.
Recommended Citation
Perales, Jasmine and Perales, Jasmine, "The Multi-Dimensional Relationship Between Immigration Policies and Mexican Migrant Women: A Cycle of Violence, Vulnerabilities, and Sobreviviencia" (2023). CMC Senior Theses. 3326.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/3326
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