The securitization of migration in United States. Human rights violations of irregular immigrants

• Autores: Karen Dalina García Curiel
• Localización: Current Issues On Human Rights / coord. por Alexander Sungurov, Carlos R. Fernández Liesa, María del Carmen Barranco Avilés, María Cruz Llamazares Calzadilla, Óscar Pérez de la Fuente, 2020, ISBN 978-84-1324-552-2, págs. 315-326
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Currently, the migration in United States is a phenomenon that is intrinsically linked to national security. This approach was origined in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, date in which migration ceases to be an ordinary issue on the political agenda and is considered a national security concern. This process was called securitization, a situation characterized by the presence of police and military forces that use mechanisms, procedures and technologies of a warlike confrontation with the aim of preventing (and fighting) the entry of unauthorized persons in the American territory.

    This event brings in parallel the implementation of policies and anti-immigrant speeches, xenophobia and discrimination against this vulnerable group, based on the idea that the irregular or undocumented immigrant is a terrorist or criminal; and that, therefore, its entry into national territory is an imminent risk, justifying the deprivation of their rights.

    From these coordinates, the main effects on the human rights of these invisible subjects are: violations of due process, arbitrary detentions, family separation (mainly of women and children), refusal of medical and psychological care, discrimination based on nationality, color, sex, age, disability, religion, orientation and sexual identity; in addition to practices that violate the integrity of the individual during detention and deportation.

    It is important to rethink the image of the immigrant in an irregular migratory situation, which, a couple of decades ago, was perceived as a relevant economic actor that, in certain cases, committed administrative faults and not as a potential terrorist. Reason enough that, for example, it is the police and not the military forces who perform border control tasks.