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Enforcing Borders in the Nuevo South: Gender and Migration in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Research Triangle, North Carolina

Natalia Deeb-Sossa1* and Jennifer Bickham Mendez2

1 University of California at Davis
2 The College of William and Mary

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ndeebsossa{at}ucdavis.edu.


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Drawing from ethnographic research in the Research Triangle of North Carolina and Williamsburg, Virginia, the authors build on Anzaldúa’s conceptualization of "borderlands" to analyze how borders of social membership are constructed and enforced in "el Nuevo South." Our gender analysis reveals that intersecting structural conditions—the labor market, the organization of public space, and the institutional organization of health care and other public services—combine with gendered processes in the home and family to regulate women’s participation in community life. Enforcers of borders include institutional actors, mostly women, in social services and clinics who occupy institutional locations that enable them to define who is entitled to public goods and to categorize migrants as undeserving "others." We reveal how a particularly configured matrix of domination transcends the spheres of home, work, and community to constrain women migrants’ physical and economic mobility and personal autonomy and to inhibit their participation in their societies of reception.

First published on August 4, 2008, doi:10.1177/0891243208321380

Gender & Society 2008;22:613.

A more recent version of this article appeared on October 1, 2008

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