776
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

In Their Own Words: Children and the Facilitation of Migrant Journeys on the U.S.-Mexico Border

ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon

References

  • Achilli, L. (2018). The “good” smuggler: The ethics and morals of human smuggling among Syrians. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 676(1), 77–96. doi:10.1177/0002716217746641
  • Achilli, L., Leach, H., Matarazzo, M., Tondo, M., Cauchi, A., & Karani, T. (2017). On my own: Protection challenges for unaccompanied and separated children in Jordan, Lebanon and Greece. Rome, Italy: Intersos and Migration Policy Centre.
  • Andreas, P. (2012). Border games: Policing the US-Mexico divide. New York, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • Astorga, L. (2005). El siglo de las drogas: El narcotráfico, del Porfiriato al nuevo milenio. Mexico City, Mexico: Plaza y Janés.
  • Australian Human Rights Commission. (2012). An age of uncertainty - Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children. Sydney, Australia: Author.
  • Ayalew, T., Adugna, F., & Deshingkar, P. (2018). Social embeddedness of human smuggling in East Africa: Brokering Ethiopian migration to the Sudan. African Human Mobility Review, 4(3), 1333–1358.
  • Aziz, A., Monzini, P., & Pastore, F. (2015). The changing dynamics of cross-border human smuggling and trafficking in the Mediterranean. Rome, Italy: Istituto Affair Internazionali.
  • Baird, T., & van Liempt, I. (2016). Scrutinising the double disadvantage: Knowledge production in the messy field of migrant smuggling. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(3), 400–417. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2015.1103172
  • Baldassar, L., & Pyke, J. (2014). Intra‐diaspora knowledge transfer and ‘New’Italian Migration. International Migration, 52(4), 128–143. doi:10.1111/imig.2014.52.issue-4
  • Brachet, J. (2018). Manufacturing smugglers: From irregular to clandestine mobility in the Sahara. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 676(1), 16–35. doi:10.1177/0002716217744529
  • Burnett, J. (2009, March 24). Mexican drug cartels recruiting young men, boys (Morning ed.). National Public Radio. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102249839
  • Campana, P. (2018). Out of Africa: The organization of migrant smuggling across the Mediterranean. European Journal of Criminology, 15(4), 481–502. doi:10.1177/1477370817749179
  • Campbell, H. (2010). Drug war zone: Frontline dispatches from the streets of El Paso and Juárez. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
  • Carey, E. (2008). Women with golden arms: Narco‐trafficking in North America, 1910– 1970. History Compass, 6(3), 774–795. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1478-0542
  • Chao-Romero, R. (2011). The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Chavez-Villegas, C. (2018). Penalization and multidimensional poverty: Improving our understanding of poverty amongst offenders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Crime, Law and Social Change, 70(5), 621–645. doi:10.1007/s10611-018-9785-8
  • Cornwall, A., & Jewkes, R. (1995). What is participatory research? Social Science & Medicine, 41(12), 1667–1676. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(95)00127-S
  • Crafter, S. (2019). Between protection and exclusion: Separated child migrants’ care relationships and caring practices. ERC Project Abstract. Retrieved from https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS001980%2F1
  • Derechos Humanos Integrales en Acción (DHIA). (2017). Neither criminals nor illegals: Children and adolescents on the migrant smuggling market on the US Mexico border. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: DHIA.
  • Díaz, G. T. (2015). Border contraband: A history of smuggling across the Rio Grande. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
  • Donelson, A. J., & Esparza, A. (Eds.). (2016). The colonias reader: Economy, housing and public health in US-Mexico border colonias. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Engle-Merry, S. (2016). The seductions of quantification: Measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Europol-Interpol. (2016). Migrant smuggling networks: Executive summary May 2016. The Hague: Europol. Retrieved from https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/ep-ip_report_executive_summary.pdf
  • Flores, L. (2013, February 1). Over both edges: Coyotaje, militarization and liminality in everyday life on ranchos along the South Texas-Mexican border. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference. Paper 5. Retrieved from http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/naccs/Tejas_Foco/Tejas/5.
  • Fragoso, J. E. M., & Bejarano, C. (2010). The disarticulation of justice: Precarious life and cross-border feminicides in the Paso del Norte region. In Staudt, K. & Fuentes, C. (eds). Cities and citizenship at the US-Mexico border (pp. 43–70). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Greenfield, V., Nunez-Neto, B., Mitch, A., Chang, J., & Rosas, E. (2019). Human smuggling and associated revenues: What do or can we know about routes from Central America to the United States? Washington, DC: RAND Corporation.
  • Guerra, S. I. (2015). La Chota y los Mafiosos: Mexican American casualties of the border drug war. Latino Studies, 13(2), 227–244. doi:10.1057/lst.2015.12
  • Guerrero, A. (2017, April 28). Informe alerta del aumento de “polleritos”, niños que usa el crimen para traficar migrantes. Sin Embargo. Retrieved from https://www.sinembargo.mx/28-04-2017/3203832
  • Hansen, L. D. T. (2006). The Chinese six companies of San Francisco and the smuggling of Chinese immigrants across the US-Mexico border, 1882-1930. Journal of the Southwest, 48(1), 37–61.
  • Heidbrink, L. (2018). Circulation of care among unaccompanied migrant youth from Guatemala. Children and Youth Services Review, 92, 30–38. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.01.039
  • Heidbrink, L., & Statz, M. (2017). Parents of global youth: Contesting debt and belonging. Children’s Geographies, 15(5), 545–557. doi:10.1080/14733285.2017.1284645
  • Hernandez, O., & Segura, H. (2018). Coyotitos: Menores traficantes de migrantes en la frontera Tamaulipas-Texas. In S. Arzaluz & E. Sandoval (Eds.), Cruces y retornos en la región del noreste mexicano en el alba del siglo XXI (pp. 69–100). Tijuana, Mexico: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
  • Hesse-Biber, S., & Flowers, H. (2019). Using a feminist grounded theory approach in mixed methods research. Chapter 24 in A. Bryant & K. Charmaz (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of current developments in grounded theory (pp. 497–516). London, UK: SAGE.
  • Howard, N. (2012). Promoting ‘healthy childhoods’ and keeping children ‘at home’: Beninese anti-trafficking policy in times of neoliberalism. Anti-Trafficking Review, 1(June), 43–59.
  • Howard, N. (2014). Teenage labor migration and antitrafficking policy in West Africa. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 653(1), 124–140. doi:10.1177/0002716213519242
  • International Organization for Migration (IOM). (2016). Egyptian unaccompanied migrant children: A case study on irregular migration. Cairo: IOM Egypt.
  • International Organization for Migration (IOM). (2017). Human trafficking along the central mediterranean route: Data, stories and information collected by the international organization for migration. Rome: IOM Italy.
  • Isacson, A., Meyer, M., & Morales, G. (2014). Mexico’s other border: Security, migration, and the humanitarian crisis at the line with Central America. Washington Office on Latin America, 2–44.
  • Izcara Palacios, S. P. (2017). From victims of trafficking to felons: Migrant smugglers recruited by Mexican cartels. Estudios Fronterizos, 18(37), 41–60.
  • Koser, K. (2008). Why migrant smuggling pays. International Migration, 46(2), 3–26. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00442.x
  • Lee, B., Renwick, D., & Cara- Labrador, C. (2019, January 24). Mexico’s drug war. Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved from https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-drug-war
  • Leutert, S., Ezzell, E., Arvey, S., Sanchez, G., Yates, C., & Kuhne, P. (2018). Asylum processing and waitlists at the US-Mexico border. Austin: Robert Strauss Centre, Center for US-Mexican Studies, Migration Policy Centre. Retrieved from https://www.strausscenter.org/images/MSI/AsylumReport_MSI.pdf
  • Lucero, F. (2018, March 22). Ni coyotitos ni polleritos: Ninas, niños y adolescentes de circuito frente a la vulnerabilidad en la frontera. Yo Ciudadano. Retrieved from https://yociudadano.com.mx/noticias/ni-polleritos-ni-coyotitos-los-menores-de-circuito-frente-a-la-vulnerabilidad-en-la-frontera/
  • Melesio, L., & Holman, J. (2017, October 30). Mexico Cartels recruit children to smuggle people to US. Al-Jazeera. Retrieved from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/mexico-cartels-recruit-children-smuggle-people-171030103553245.html
  • Miller, J., & Carbone-Lopez, K. (2015). Beyond ‘doing gender’: Incorporating race, class, place, and life transitions into feminist drug research. Substance Use & Misuse, 50(6), 693–707. doi:10.3109/10826084.2015.978646
  • Moreno Mena, J. A., & Avedaño Millán, R. M. (2015). Arrinconados por la realidad: Menores de circuito. Estudios Fronterizos, 16(31), 207–238. doi:10.21670/ref.2015.31.a08
  • Naim, M. (2005). Illicit: how smugglers, traffickers and copycats are hijacking the global economy. New York, NY: Random House.
  • Newsweek. (2010, March 23). The drug war is not Mexico’s Iraq. Newsweek. Retrieved from https://www.newsweek.com/drug-war-not-mexicos-iraq-69501
  • Núñez, G. G., & Heyman, J. M. (2007). Entrapment processes and immigrant communities in a time of heightened border vigilance. Human Organization, 354–365. doi:10.17730/humo.66.4.v32mp32167k8l705
  • O’Leary, A. O. (2009). The ABCs of migration costs: Assembling, bajadores, and coyotes. Migration Letters, 6(1), 27–35.
  • Observatorio Nacional sobre Detenciones Arbitrarias. (2019). La Importancia de las OSC: Estrategias de Incidencia Social. San Luis Potosi, Mexico: Educación y Ciudadanía.
  • Okyere, S. (2018). Moral economies and child labour in artisanal gold mining in Ghana. In Brace, L. & O'Connell Davidson, J (Eds.). Revisiting slavery and antislavery (pp. 231–260). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Palmer, W., & Missbach, A. (2017). Trafficking within migrant smuggling operations: Are underage transporters ‘victims’ or ‘perpetrators’? Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 26(3), 287–307. doi:10.1177/0117196817726627
  • Payan, T., Staudt, K., & Kruszewski, Z. A. (Eds.). (2013). A war that can’t be won: Binational perspectives on the war on drugs. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Peña, J., & Garcia-Mendoza, M. (2019). Niños, niñas y adolescentes de circuito: Entre la precariedad y la frontera, México. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud, 17(2), 1–21. doi:10.11600/1692715x.17211
  • Sanchez, G. (2016a). Human smuggling and border crossings. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Sanchez, G. (2016b). Women’s participation in the facilitation of human smuggling: The case of the US southwest. Geopolitics, 21(2), 387–406. doi:10.1080/14650045.2016.1140645
  • Sanchez, G. (2018). Portrait of a human smuggler: Race, class, and gender among facilitators of irregular migration on the US–Mexico border. In M. Bosworth, A. Parmar, & Y. Vázquez (Eds.), Race, criminal justice, and migration control: Enforcing the boundaries of belonging (pp. 29–42). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Sanchez, G. E., & Zhang, S. X. (2018). Rumors, encounters, collaborations, and survival: The migrant smuggling–drug trafficking nexus in the US Southwest. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 676(1), 135–151. doi:10.1177/0002716217752331
  • Shelley, L. (2010). Human trafficking: A global perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Slater, D. (2017). Wolf boys: Two American teenagers and Mexico’s most dangerous drug cartel. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
  • Smith, L. T. (2013). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. London, UK: Zed Books Ltd.
  • Staudt, K., & Méndez, Z. Y. (2015). Courage, resistance, and women in Ciudad Juárez: Challenges to militarization. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • UNICEF & IOM. (2017). Harrowing journeys: Children and youth on the move across the Mediterranean Sea, at risk of trafficking and exploitation. New York, NY: UNICEF.
  • UNODC. (2018). Global study on the smuggling of migrants. Vienna, Austria: Author.
  • Van Liempt, I., & Sersli, S. (2013). State responses and migrant experiences with human smuggling: A reality check. Antipode, 45(4), 1029–1046. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01027.x
  • Vogt, W. A. (2018). Lives in transit: Violence and intimacy on the migrant journey. Sacramento: University of California Press.
  • Zhang, S. (2007). Smuggling and trafficking in human beings: All roads lead to America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • Zhang, S. X., Chin, K. L., & Miller, J. (2007). Women’s participation in Chinese transnational human smuggling: A gendered market perspective. Criminology, 45(3), 699–733. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00085.x
  • Zhang, S. X., Sanchez, G., & Achilli, L. (2018). Crimes of solidarity in mobility: Alternative views on migrant smuggling. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 676(1), 6–15. doi:10.1177/0002716217746908

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.