Martínez Daniel E, Slack Jeremy, Beyerlein Kraig, Vandervoet Prescott, Klingman Kristin, Molina Paola, Manning Shiras, Burham Melissa, Walzak Kylie, Valencia Kristen, Gamboa Lorenzo
a George Washington University.
b University of Texas at El Paso.
Popul Stud (Camb). 2017 Jul;71(2):249-264. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2017.1306093. Epub 2017 Apr 13.
Increased border enforcement efforts have redistributed unauthorized Mexican migration to the United States (US) away from traditional points of crossing, such as San Diego and El Paso, and into more remote areas along the US-Mexico border, including southern Arizona. Yet relatively little quantitative scholarly work exists examining Mexican migrants' crossing, apprehension, and repatriation experiences in southern Arizona. We contend that if scholars truly want to understand the experiences of unauthorized migrants in transit, such migrants should be interviewed either at the border after being removed from the US, or during their trajectories across the border, or both. This paper provides a methodological overview of the Migrant Border Crossing Study (MBCS), a unique data source on Mexican migrants who attempted an unauthorized crossing along the Sonora-Arizona border, were apprehended, and repatriated to Nogales, Sonora in 2007-09. We also discuss substantive and theoretical contributions of the MBCS.
加强边境执法力度已使未经授权进入美国的墨西哥移民重新分布，不再集中于圣地亚哥和埃尔帕索等传统过境点，而是进入美墨边境沿线更偏远的地区，包括亚利桑那州南部。然而，关于墨西哥移民在亚利桑那州南部的过境、被捕和遣返经历的定量学术研究相对较少。我们认为，如果学者们真想了解过境中未经授权移民的经历，就应该在美国将这些移民驱逐出境后，在边境对他们进行访谈，或者在他们穿越边境的途中进行访谈，或者两者都进行。本文提供了移民边境过境研究（MBCS）的方法概述，这是一个关于2007年至2009年试图未经授权穿越索诺拉 - 亚利桑那州边境、被捕并被遣返回索诺拉州诺加利斯的墨西哥移民的独特数据源。我们还讨论了MBCS的实质性和理论贡献。
