{"id":1968,"date":"2018-04-16T09:13:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2018-04-16T09:13:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:13:47","slug":"migration-and-the-u-s-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2018\/04\/16\/migration-and-the-u-s-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration and the U.S. Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wall Mural in Nogales. Photo by Jonathan McIntosh, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Migration on the southern border has been a hot topic in U.S. media and politics of late, only intensified by the recent release of plans for the <\/span>first phase of the construction<\/span><\/a> of a wall and the <\/span>end of Temporary Protected Status for a number of Central American countries<\/span><\/a>. Unfortunately, media reporting and the debates about these policies are all too rarely informed by social science research on border policies and their impacts on migrants and migration flows.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the late 1980s, restrictive policies and measures on immigration (e.g. limiting the number of visas available) and the tightening and militarization of the U.S. southern border have kept potentially undocumented Mexican migrants in the country. With higher costs and risks at the border for undocumented migrants, research suggests that the choice to stay in the United States, rather than moving back and forth over the border, is more of a necessity today than ever before.<\/h5>\n