Abstract In this article, I reflect on changes in the conditions of transnational mobility over the past 25 years. Drawing on continuous engagement with Dominican migrants in sending, transit, destination and return situations, I argue that increasingly strict migration control measures during this period have profoundly altered the existential option of living lives across borders. I specifically address changes in the right to move and settle, the absence of avenues for regular migration and the concomitant rise in high-risk irregular migration. Examples include the risk to life, safety and investments during journeys, the risk of exploitation in both transit and destination countries and the risks resulting from being subject to deportation and removal from family and community. I argue that the by now well-established tradition of transnational migration research, in particular the multi-local focus on the social relations that facilitate migration, can be fruitfully extended by paying equal attention to structural factors that restrict mobility.

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从移民身份到移民产业：跨国移民的变化条件

摘要在本文中，我回顾了过去25年中跨国流动条件的变化。我认为，在移民，过境，目的地和回返情况下，与多米尼加移民的持续参与，我认为，在此期间日益严格的移民控制措施已深刻改变了跨境生活的生存选择。我专门谈及迁徙权和定居权的变化，没有定期移民的途径以及随之而来的高风险非正规移民的增加。例子包括旅途中的生命，安全和投资风险，过境国和目的地国的剥削风险以及因被驱逐出境并从家庭和社区驱逐而产生的风险。