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Forced Migration across Mexico: Organized Violence, Migrant Struggles, and Life Trajectories

Forced Migration across Mexico: Organized Violence, Migrant Struggles, and Life Trajectories

Alba Villalever, Ximena
Pries, Ludger
Schütze, Stephanie

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1032614013
ISBN13: 9781032614014
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 11 2024
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book analyzes the different ways in which forced migration comes together with organized violence in the Americas, focusing specifically on the migration corridor from Central America, through Mexico and on to the United States.

No matter their starting point, most South and Central American migrants to the United States must eventually traverse Mexico, and often many other borders beforehand, to reach their destination. As border controls tighten, for many migrants turning back is not a possibility, or something they desire. And so, when faced with hardening policies, migrants are often forced into situations of increased violence and precarity, without a shift in their ultimate objective. This book analyzes the complex social situations of everyday violence, and increasingly aggressive border controls, which face migrants in Mexico, as well as their exposure to a different kind of violence during their migration trajectory through the criminal actors such as gangs, cartels, and corrupt law enforcements that seek to make a profit from them. The book takes a critical approach on migration policies and on the externalization of borders by analyzing their effects on the trajectories and experiences of migrants themselves. It shows that the more migrants' opportunities and rights during transit are hindered, the more they are at risk of exposure to these actors.

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