State and marginality. The construction of public policies, governing at a distance

  • María Luisa Martell Contreras Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades "Alfonso Vélez Pliego"
Keywords: Government at a distance, technologies, migration, State, public policies

Abstract

The mobility of the population, characterizes the current globalization, as a recurrent dynamic in the countries that expel labor. The State creates strategies to reading and control of the population beyond the territorial limits, technologies are used to know, locate and measure the population inside and outside the national territory; measures implemented to influence events and places at a distance, where, in some cases, the creation of public policies on migration are implementations that contribute directly to specific purposes of the State.

Author Biography

María Luisa Martell Contreras, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades "Alfonso Vélez Pliego"

Master in Sociocultural Anthropology of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities "Alfonso Vélez Pliego" and editor of the newspaper Multitud.

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Published
2017-07-21
How to Cite
María Luisa Martell Contreras. (2017). State and marginality. The construction of public policies, governing at a distance. Mirada Antropológica, 12(13), 8-16. Retrieved from http://rd.buap.mx/ojs-dm/index.php/mirant/article/view/94