Overwhelmed Management: Asylum Applications in the United States and Waiting Mechanisms Beyond its Borders

The article analyzes the production of border waiting spaces generated by the U.S. asylum policy through the metering and the Migrant Protection Protocols. These mechanisms are understood as part of a migration management repertoire that has turned several Latin American borders into waiting “buffer-territories.” The analysis focuses on migration contention and waiting in Tijuana, Baja California, and Central American and Haitian asylum seekers arriving at the border from 2016. The research was carried out using a qualitative approach and specialized bibliographic review. The findings show how the two mechanisms articulate with each other and, together with the indefinite extension of waiting imposed by COVID-19, suggest a sort of preamble to the cessation of the right of asylum in the United States. © 2022, El Colegio de la Frontiera Norte. All rights reserved.

Immobilised flight in Tijuana: Mexican women forcibly displaced to the United States

This article analyses living conditions in the border city of Tijuana (Mexico)for Mexican women forcibly displaced fromtheir places of residence due to family violenceand organised crime who intend torequest asylum in the United States. The USmanages asylum applications with a systemof daily quotas that are too small to meet thedemand. Hence, all asylum seekers are containedon the Mexican side of the border asthey wait to submit their application, whichcan take over a year. For displaced Mexicanwomen this hiatus in their escape leavesthem in a liminal state at the border in termsof subsistence, security and mental health,and exposes them to re-victimisation. SinceMarch 2020, this has been exacerbated bymeasures to combat COVID-19 © 2021, Revista CIDOB d''Afers Internacionals. All Rights Reserved.

School Closings and Socio-Educational Inequality in Times of Covid-19. An Exploratory Research in an International Key

The Covid-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has changed the modus vivendi of thousands of people around the world. Exceptionality and emergency have influenced various sectors and areas of the social and institutional life of human beings, such as health, economics, politics or education. The objective of this study is to offer an international perspective on the process of school closure and its educational-social consequences through the perceptions of key informants. With a sample that reaches 23 countries and 4 different continents, perceptions have been analyzed based on seven categories: Timing of execution, anticipation or delay of measures. Democratic-participatory nature of the educational measures taken. Curricular, didactic and methodological adaptation. Infrastructure and resources for adequate distance training. Perceptions about teachers. Perceptions of the family environment. Alternative proposals. The results show a high diversity of ways of facing this situation, but with similar consequences for the most vulnerable population. This implies a wake-up call to managers and agents in the educational field to curb the educational and social inequality that Covid-19 may be generating.