Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
323 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (142211)
Principal Investigator: Miles,Caroline
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 129,321
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 9/1/22 - 8/31/25
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Literatures & Cultural Studies
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Literatures & Cultural Studies
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Geographies of Migration and (In)Security at the US-Mexican Border and Minority-Serving Institutions
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Texas State University
CFDA Link: NSF
47.075
Program Title:
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
CFDA Linked: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1--This research project will center around collaboration between UTRGV, George Washington University, and Texas State University, in order to examine and publish on how US immigration policies of exclusion and expulsion impact migration to the US-Mexico border and reshape and shift borders. We will draw upon analysis of quantitative data, policies, literature, and interviews with immigration policy makers and analysts in Washington DC, key informants, and asylum seekers in the Rio Grande Valley. The objective of the project is to understand how asylum policies of expulsion are transforming the physical landscapes and infrastructure of the US-Mexican border as well as to understand conceptualizations of where and what practices constitute “the border.” We will train in and use open-source mapping and high-resolution satellite imagery to assess immigration infrastructures such as processing centers, immigration court tents, migrant camps, and the expanding border fence focusing on 2018-2023. We will analyze how policies of expulsion and securitization of migration policy through Title 42 increase asylum seeker vulnerability and empower organized crime. We will analyze ethnographic accounts by immigrants, their advocates, and immigration officials at the border. We will use TRACS and CBP data regarding apprehensions, asylum appeals and outcomes, and reports of cartel violence. In addition, we will train undergraduate and graduate students in ethnographic research and develop service-learning courses on the topic of migration that incorporates volunteer work and ethnographic studies. The majority of the grant-funded research and collaboration will take place during the summer periods, while field research and mentoring of students will continue through the academic year periods.
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