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Border Labor

Border Labor is a theoretical construct within the study of working-class experience that denotes the socio-political condition of laborers who operate in liminal economic and geographic spaces, distinguished by their simultaneous marginalization and instrumentalization at national, cultural, or industrial boundaries.

163

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5.7K

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215

Authors

118

Institutions

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2017–2026

22

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Publications

163

The terror of the machine: technology, work, gender, and ecology on the U.S.-Mexico border

Choice Reviews Online · 1998 · 183 citations

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The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers: Evidence from Switzerland

Andreas Beerli, Jan Ruffner, Michael Siegenthaler et al. · American Economic Review · 2021 · 161 citations

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Border as method, or, the multiplication of labor

Choice Reviews Online · 2014 · 146 citations

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Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor.

Chien Liu, Peter Kwong · International Migration Review · 1999 · 140 citations

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Do Immigrants Compete with Natives?

Andrea Gavosto, Alessandra Venturini, Claudia Villosio · Labour · 1999 · 138 citations

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Authors

215

  1. MT
    Marie T. Mora

    New Mexico State University, United States

    4 publications · 108 citations

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  2. MJ
    Michael J. Pisani

    Central Michigan University, United States

    3 publications · 54 citations

    3

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  3. AB
    Andreas Beerli

    Swiss Finance Institute, Switzerland

    3 publications · 195 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. AD
    Alberto Dávila

    New Mexico State University, United States

    3 publications · 76 citations

    3

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  5. JM
    Josiah McC. Heyman

    The University of Texas at El Paso, United States

    3 publications · 85 citations

    3

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Institutions

118

  1. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    318 citations

  2. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    235 citations

  3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    189 citations

  4. Swiss Finance Institute

    Zurich, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    583 citations

  5. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    583 citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    63 citations

  7. New Mexico State University

    Las Cruces, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    68 citations

  8. Université de Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    124 citations

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Venues

  1. International Migration Review

    IMR · 11 publications · 489 citations

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  2. Journal of Borderlands Studies

    JBS · 11 publications · 220 citations

    10

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 10 publications · 846 citations

    10

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  4. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 5 publications · 188 citations

    5

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  5. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

    5 publications · 163 citations

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