The United States-Mexico smart border. Representations of technology and construction of irregular migrant as a threat-enemy
The purpose of this article is to identify and interpret mediated representations of the US-Mexico digital border, performing a qualitative content analysis on a systematized corpus of 171 communication products, published between 2011-2022. The results show that the symbolic construction of the irr...
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| Language: | spa eng |
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Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
2023
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| Online Access: | https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1180 |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this article is to identify and interpret mediated representations of the US-Mexico digital border, performing a qualitative content analysis on a systematized corpus of 171 communication products, published between 2011-2022. The results show that the symbolic construction of the irregular migrant as a threat-enemy, as well as the representations of technology as a powerful entity to hyper-surveillance and datafication, justifies the establishment of securitization policies to fortify the digital border. |
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