Reimagining Security Resource Library
Welcome to the Reimagining Security Resource Library, which includes a selection of documents and translations curated and produced by the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience. These resources seek to expand our understandings of border externalization in a manner that interrogates land tenure, corporate interests, and different forms of resistance to militarization, megaprojects and state violence with a particular focus on southeast Mexico.
Borders of the South Border: territorial (re)organization and systems of (in)mobility in México.
This essay by Abbdel Camargo Martínez and Sergio Prieto Díaz suggests we rethink how Mexico’s south border is conceived, and how changing our approach can help open up questions around territory, displacement, and capitalism that are too often overlooked.
Read MoreHelax Istmo: the tip of the spear in a new wave of energy colonialism in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
This report by GeoComunes explores the footprint of the first major corporate investment in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, México, in the context of the Trans-Isthmus Corridor, a logistics and manufacturing megaproject overseen by the Secretary of the Marines.
Read MoreThe Everywhere Border: Digital Migration Control Infrastructure in the Americas
The US is building a digital border infrastructure in neighboring countries that expands and deepens surveillance, while hiding state violence. The implications of this new infrastructure will be long-lasting and need to be integrated into strategies of resistance of migrant justice movements worldwide.
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