Viral/Species/Crossing: Border Panics and Zoonotic Vulnerabilities

With an ostensible focus on the governance of the swine flu pandemic, this essay has offered a sketch, however incomplete, of the ways that an effective global apartheid system functions not through border controls per se, but as a regime of continually vigilant and anxious power at work in shared t...

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Published in:Women's studies quarterly 2012-04, Vol.40 (1/2), p.117-137
Main Author: White, Melissa Autumn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Apartheid
Borders
Boundaries
Capitalism
Cartography
Citizenship
Countries
Feedback (Response)
Focus
Freedom
Freedom of movement
Globalization
Governance
Immigration
Influenza
International borders
Labor Movements
Laborers
Mexico
Migrant labor
Migrant Workers
Migrants
Pandemics
Panic
Rights
Social Systems
Sovereignty
Swine
Swine flu
Territories
Viruses
Vulnerability
Zoonoses
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Summary:With an ostensible focus on the governance of the swine flu pandemic, this essay has offered a sketch, however incomplete, of the ways that an effective global apartheid system functions not through border controls per se, but as a regime of continually vigilant and anxious power at work in shared territorial spaces of uncommon rights to have rights. The controlled insertion of the entrepreneurial poor (prescreened Mexican nonimmigrant temporary migrant workers) into spaces of required labor (agriculture) is a mode of foreclosing the freedom of movement; movement is suspended effectively through limitations on rights beyond the narrow confines of a particular employment relationship upon which such workers' right to legally remain in the country depends.
ISSN:0732-1562
1934-1520
1934-1520
DOI:10.1353/wsq.2012.0011