Social Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 2
February 2021 - 49 articles
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Cover Story: In March 2020, the United States government introduced a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. These measures worsened an already precarious situation at the US–Mexico border for over 60,000 asylum seekers who were prevented, by an earlier “Remain in Mexico” (aka MPP) policy, from remaining in the United States while awaiting their asylum hearings. In-depth interviews reveal that COVID-19’s primary impact on asylum seekers was a further dismantling of the asylum process and prolonged im/mobility. We explore spatial practices of exclusion and im/mobility that produced the MPP camp in Matamoros, Mexico to understand how legal regimes of exclusion work, the spaces they produce, and how victims of this legal violence use im/mobility as acts of resiliency and contestation. View this paper.