Cross-Border Anxiety among Korean Border Commuters at the US–Mexico Border
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the Korean transborder community in the US–Mexico border region, this article examines Korean border commuters’ experiences of border inspections through the lens of cross-border anxiety. Interrogating cross-border anxiety offers insight into the ways in which border inspections require border crossers to surrender to the absolute power of the sovereign state, which can arbitrarily shift the framing of non-citizens from “desirable” to “threat.” By applying Mark B. Salter’s conceptualization of sovereign exceptionalism in borderlands, this article shows how discretionary border performance – border agents’ interactions with border crossers – not only adjudicates border crossers’ entry into the country but also has disciplinary effects on immigrants – both border crossers and those around them. This article extends the current discourse by paying attention to how Korean border crossers and their communities find ways to manage their cross-border anxiety in this context by presenting themselves as docile and obedient subjects or restricting their border-crossing mobility and/or employment opportunities. Furthermore, this article shows how immigrants construct counter-discourses that push back against the state’s framing of them as “undesirable.”
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".