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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spelling oai:ojs.localhost:article-11802023-10-16T23:56:53Z The United States-Mexico smart border. Representations of technology and construction of irregular migrant as a threat-enemy La frontera inteligente Estados Unidos-México. Representaciones de tecnología y construcción del migrante irregular como amenaza-enemigo Méndez-Fierros, Hugo US-Mexico smart border mediated representations amenaza-enemización migrantes irregulares Social science sociología patología social inmigrantes frontera digital EUA-México representaciones mediáticas amenaza-enemización migrantes irregulares Ciencias sociales sociología patología social inmigrantes 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. El objetivo es identificar e interpretar representaciones mediáticas sobre la frontera digital EUA-México, al realizar un análisis de contenido cualitativo sobre un corpus sistematizado de 171 productos comunicativos, publicados entre 2011-2022. Los resultados demuestran que la construcción simbólica del migrante irregular como amenaza-enemigo, así como las representaciones sobre la tecnología como ente poderoso de hipervigilancia y datificación, contribuyen a justificar la instauración de políticas securitizadoras para fortificar la frontera digital. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2023-10-16 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip text/xml text/html application/pdf https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1180 10.21670/ref.2317128 Estudios Fronterizos Revista; Vol. 24 (2023) Estudios Fronterizos; Vol. 24 (2023) 2395-9134 0187-6961 spa eng https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1180/2495 https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1180/2496 https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1180/2497 https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1180/2498 https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1180/2499 https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1180/2557 US-Mexico border 2011-2022 Frontera EUA-México 2011-2022 Derechos de autor 2023 Estudios Fronterizos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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The United States-Mexico smart border. Representations of technology and construction of irregular migrant as a threat-enemy
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title The United States-Mexico smart border. Representations of technology and construction of irregular migrant as a threat-enemy
title_short The United States-Mexico smart border. Representations of technology and construction of irregular migrant as a threat-enemy
title_full The United States-Mexico smart border. Representations of technology and construction of irregular migrant as a threat-enemy
title_fullStr The United States-Mexico smart border. Representations of technology and construction of irregular migrant as a threat-enemy
title_full_unstemmed The United States-Mexico smart border. Representations of technology and construction of irregular migrant as a threat-enemy
title_sort united states-mexico smart border. representations of technology and construction of irregular migrant as a threat-enemy
description 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.
publisher Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
publishDate 2023
url https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1180
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