Project: "New spatiotemporal assemblages of control in international border securitization processes: the case of itinerant workers in the cannabis industry in California"

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Supervisor:

Dra. Carmen Fernández Casanueva

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This research aims to study the trajectories of transnational labor mobility of itinerant migrants in the cannabis industry, colloquially called trimmigrants. Through the study of these trajectories, it is proposed to deepen the knowledge of new space/time control assemblages in the securitization processes of international borders. There are three main characteristics that encompass the mobility of trimmigrants 1) the itinerant nature of its transnational labor mobility that includes international, regional and local movements inconstant combination during the same work season, 2) the configuration of the cannabis labor market as a global agricultural enclave and 3) the social navigation practices that the subjects implement to achieve their goals, aspirations and expectations.

This type of mobility, preliminarily called hypermobility, presupposes that social actors have to resort to social navigation practices to avoid the growing migratory and border controls, which reveals the existence of new space/time migratory and border control assemblages