Jhonnatan Curiel He is a doctor in Social Sciences, Childhood and Youth, from the University of Manizales and CINDE, Colombia. His thesis “Geopoetics of inhabiting in Tijuana. Footprints of Youth Sensitivity ”earned the Summa cum laude mention on the show. He has published articles and book chapters in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. His most recent publication is VGoings, edges and border places: powers and resistance in America, J. Curiel, Óscar Jaramillo and Isabel Arredondo (comp.), Fundación Universitaria del Area Andina (2019), Pereira, Colombia. She is an academic assistant in the Office of the President of El Colef. His lines of research are youth, art and borders. Email: jhonnatan.curiel@gmail.com

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The documentary “Over The Wall / Sobre el muro”: a look at the social transformations caused by the border wall between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana

  • Alberto Hernandez Hernandez
  • Jhonnatan Curiel

Keywords: documentary, border, migration, wall, Tijuana.

BAsado in the documentary Over the Wall / Sobre el muro (El Colef, 2019), this text discusses some social effects from the transformations of the barriers and divisions that have demarcated the border of the states of California, the United States and Baja California, Mexico, until the construction of fences and border walls promoted by the last four US federal administrations. Based on interviews with specialists in migration and borders, residents, and an investigation of archives and documents around the wall and its effects on the Tijuana-San Diego border, this documentary captures periods of change and border reinforcement by States. States, as well as the recent situation with the arrival of new migratory flows such as the caravans of Central American migrants to Tijuana and the challenges for this border.