The Impacts of Border Traffic and Social Control on Transborder Commuters’ Well-Being

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Estefania Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology, and political science.

Her research investigates how Latinx communities experience the law through policing and surveillance systems, and the consequences of these experiences on their racialization, well-being, and legal consciousness.

Her presentation will focus on preliminary findings for a book chapter on the mental, affective, and physical consequences of waiting in traffic at the Mexico-U.S. border. I focus on the accounts of 102 Latinx transborder commuters, U.S. citizens and non-citizens residing in Mexican border cities that routinely cross the border for work, education, and commerce. Transborder commuters are a highly understudied population that routinely and frequently cross the border through land ports of entry, waiting as much as 3+ hours daily. Preliminary results suggest that transborder commuters experience high levels of insomnia, stress, and anxiety.

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Contact Information

Jaelyn Chinchilla
jnc323@drexel.edu