The Tri-Border Area in Images

Pablo Mardones Charlone

Keywords: argentina, brazil, paraguay, enclaves, borders, organized crime, DRUG TRAFFIC, Paraná Tri-Border Area, Visual ethnography, Free-trade zone, Smuggling

Abstract

This chapter presents a descriptive visual record of the Paraná Tri-Border Area (between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay), using 40 images (map and photographs). It aims to describe this border context using images to portray the territory’s different features that have been described in written text in previous social research. With these images, we have built a visual story of the geographic/border interconnections and the particularities of the three most important cities that make up the Tri-Border Area (TBA): Puerto Iguazú (Argentina), Foz de Iguazú (Brazil), and Ciudad del Este (Paraguay). Through this exercise, we show how they differ by constituting enclaves. We will also show that this differentiation enhances specific forms of border articulation between these localities.

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Editorial: Springer
Fecha de publicación: 2021
Página de inicio: 85
Página final: 105
Idioma: Inglés
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85750-9_2