Contrabbandieri, banditi e guardiani. Le vie del traffico illecito nella costruzione del confine tra Messico e Stati Uniti

This article focuses on the Mexico-United States border creation between 1821, year of the Mexican independence from Spain, and 1924, when the establishment of the Border Patrol shaped the current border control structure. This process will be analysed through the lens of smuggling, considering both...

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Main Author: Conseguita la laurea magistrale in Scienze Internazionali e Diplomatiche nella facoltà “R. Ruffilli” di Forlì (Università di Bologna), con una tesi sulla riconfigurazione del confine tra Messico e Stati Uniti tra economie aperte e frontiere chiuse, Valentina Abalzati si è trasferita a Città del Messico presso la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Attualmente lavora come analista free lance per questioni di politica e sicurezza e collabora saltuariamente con alcune riviste di politica internazionale, tra cui Limes e World in Progress.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Diacronie 2013-04-01
Series:Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea
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Online Access:http://www.studistorici.com/2013/04/29/abalzati_numero_13/
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Summary:This article focuses on the Mexico-United States border creation between 1821, year of the Mexican independence from Spain, and 1924, when the establishment of the Border Patrol shaped the current border control structure. This process will be analysed through the lens of smuggling, considering both the thread of union and separation that still determines the relations between the two countries. In particular, during the 50 years between the war against the United States (1846-1848) and the end of Porfírio Diaz’s regime in 1910, two simultaneous trends developed: on one side, the border crystallized, resulting in the consolidation of the flimsy “line of sand”, on the other side, a counter movement split the two national sovereignties , claiming their respective territories. Smuggling was the very first, fundamental human behaviour marking the border, paradoxically by challenging it.
ISSN:2038-0925
2038-0925