Asylum and Mass Detention at the U.S.–Mexico Border during COVID-19

Abstract

The study (URL1) is the work of two scholars living and researching in the United States. Jeremy Slack is a lecturer of geography at the University of Texas (UTEP) in El Paso. He got his doctoral degree at the University of Arizona, his main research area is crimes in connection with state border (human and drug trafficking, violation of rights of other persons) and the problems in connection with procedures of the state power (deportation, brake of family contacts). Josiah Heyman is professor of anthropology at UTEP. The main direction of
his work is the examination of the perpetrator side of illegal border crossing (mainly between the USA and Mexico) and of the acts of the state power handling these actions and further a confrontation of both sides. In his studies is presented the value order of his master, Eric C. Wolf (URL2), who criticised violence connected to authorities. The publication appeared in the „Journal of Latin American Geography”, which has been published by the Latin American Geographic Conference (CLAG) and has been distributed by the University of Texas Press since its founding in 1970 (URL3). H-index: 20. Actuality of the topic is indisputable, as controlled and uncontrolled global migration and the global human pandemic of Covid-19 affect the population of the whole world.