Deported, homeless, and into the canal: Environmental structural violence in the binational Tijuana River

Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal, Brendan Terry, Joseph Friedman, Sara Alejandra González-Olachea, Alfonso Chavez, Margarita Díaz López, Lilia Pacheco Bufanda, Carlos Martinez, Stephanie Elizabeth Medina Ponce, Rebeca Cázares-Adame, Paola Fernanda Rochin Bochm, Georgia Kayser, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Gabriela Muñoz Meléndez, Seth M. Holmes, Ietza Bojorquez, Marc Los Huertos and Philippe Bourgois

Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 305, issue C

Abstract: The US deports more Mexicans to Tijuana than any other borderland city. Returning involuntarily as members of a stigmatized underclass, many find themselves homeless and de-facto stateless. Subject to routinized police victimization, many take refuge in the Tijuana River Canal (El Bordo). Previous reports suggest Tijuana River water may be contaminated but prior studies have not accessed the health effects or contamination of the water closest to the river residents.

Keywords: Environmental injustice; Water quality analysis; WASH access; Ethnography; Epidemiology; US-Mexico border; Police violence; PWID (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115044

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