Wilson Brenda K, Burnstan Alexis, Calderon Cristina, Csordas Thomas J
University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2023 Mar;320:115714. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115714. Epub 2023 Jan 20.
Although the United States has been a nation of immigrants since its founding, the massive number of asylum seekers arriving at the US-Mexico Border is a relatively new phenomenon that requires attention and study. This paper describes the lived experience of three asylum seekers, demonstrating how physical and mental health are structured by US policies and politics. The in-depth accounts are informed by participant observation and policy analysis of humanitarian, non-governmental organizations advocating for asylum seekers. We focus on health and geographical trajectories using the triple trauma paradigm that includes trauma in the country of origin, trauma incurred during transit/flight, and the trauma of arrival and relocation/resettlement in the host country. We suggest that a form of necropower, understood as processes exacerbating the potentiality for death, is embedded in the structure of the US asylum apparatus.
尽管自建国以来美国一直是一个移民国家，但大量寻求庇护者抵达美墨边境是一个相对较新的现象，需要予以关注和研究。本文描述了三名寻求庇护者的生活经历，展示了美国政策和政治如何构建身心健康。这些深入的叙述是基于对倡导庇护寻求者的人道主义非政府组织的参与观察和政策分析。我们使用三重创伤范式关注健康和地理轨迹，该范式包括原籍国的创伤、过境/逃亡期间遭受的创伤以及抵达和在东道国重新安置/定居时的创伤。我们认为，一种被理解为加剧死亡可能性的过程的死亡权力形式，嵌入在美国庇护机制的结构中。
