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Whose Security? Dilemmas of US Border Security in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands
From: Borderlands
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The Arizona-Sonera borderlands, especially since September 11, 2001, represent the quintessential example of a civil and criminal social networking revolution, a self-defeating federal border crackdown, and crime waves that threaten the personal security of residents and migrants. The Arizona-Sonora border situation raises key questions about current US border-security policy: Whose security is being enhanced by the stepped-up border surveillance of federal authorities when the personal security of people residing and moving through the region is threatened by increasing crime? Why has the increase in national-security measures rendered ordinary people less secure?
Contributors
Julie A. Murphy Erfani
Julie Murphy Erfani is the Director of ASU's Masters program in Social Justice & Human Rights. Her publications and research have previously focused on violence and human rights abuses in the US-Mexico drug war and in Mexico-U.S.relations in general. Her newest interests focus on asylum seekers and sex-trafficked migrants crossing into the European Union via Greece and Italy. Since 2016, she is director of an annual intensive field experience allowing students to assist and engage directly with forced migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq as they await asylum application processing for residence in the EU. Dr. Murphy Erfani is an international political economist interested in corporate, commercial, and state crime, the right to have rights of asylum seekers and trafficked people, and human rights responses to forced migrants and sex-trafficked people.
