States of Emergency: New Writing on Deportation and Democracy

• DOI: 10.1177/0094582X19858994
• Published date: 01 November 2020
• Author: Heather Williams
• Date: 01 November 2020
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

148 LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES

Oportunidades/Prospera, which provided funds for children’s education. Women

played a large role as intermediaries between their families and many of these pro-

grams. Indigenous workers were also beneficiaries of programs specifically targeted at

them by the Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas.

In the municipality of Mulegé, indigenous agricultural workers play much the same

role as they do in Comondú but are even more subject to spatial segregation and socio-

economic marginalization. Among the differences are that migration flows increased

only after 2000; that many residents are leaving for La Paz and Comondú; that migrants

tend to be seasonal; that families more often migrate together; and that most agricul-

tural workers are indigenous and follow a multistate step-migration pattern. As in

Comondú, most of the packaging plant workers are mestizos.

In sum, the tourist and agricultural enclaves are geographically located value chains

expanding from international capital though multisited national and local capital to the

exploitation of a low-waged migrant and ethnicized labor force. Under neoliberal glo-

balization, Velasco and Hernández contend, this can be seen as an instance of outsourc-

ing. Indigenous migrants predominate in agricultural export zones and are paid less

than others. In the tourist regional economic enclaves they are among the most infor-

malized, quasi-informalized, and precarious workers, and in both types of enclaves

they are residentially segregated and socioeconomically marginalized.

States of Emergency

New Writing on Deportation and Democracy

by

Heather Williams

Yuri Herrera Signs Preceding the End of the World. London and New York: And Other

Stories Press, 2015. 114 pp.

Jose Orduña The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement. Boston:

Beacon Press, 2016. 228 pp.

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global

Capitalism. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 299 pp.

Wendy Brown Walled States, Waning Sovereignty. 2d edition. New York: Zone Books,

2017. 183 pp.

Eileen Truax Dreamers: An Immigrant Generaton’s Fight for Their American Dream. Boston:

Beacon Press, 2015. 220 pp.

DOI: 10.1177/0094582X19858994

Vas a cruzar y a vas a mojarte y vas a rifártela contra gente cabrona; te desesperás,

cómo no, verás maravillas y al fin encontrarás a tu hermano, a aunque estés triste lle-

garás a donde debes llegar.

—Yuri Herrera, Señales que precederán el fin del mundo

Heather Williams teaches politics at Pomona College and is an associate editor of Latin American

Perspectives.