Crossing Mexico: Structural violence and the commodification of undocumented Central American migrants

The undocumented-migrant journey across Mexico has become a site of intense violence, exploitation, and profit making within the logics of capitalism. While transnational migration is often conceptualized from the perspective of sending and receiving communities and borderlands, I suggest the limina...

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Vydáno v:	American ethnologist Ročník 40; číslo 4; s. 764 - 780
Hlavní autor:	VOGT, WENDY A.
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Washington, DC Wiley Subscription Services 01.11.2013 Hoboken, NJ Wiley American Ethnological Society Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Témata:	Borders Capitalism Central America and Mexico Commodification Commodities Ethnography Ethnology Exploitation Extortion Global local relationship Globalization Hispanic-Americans Human ecology, environment Human settlements Humanitarian aid Humanitarianism Illegal immigration Internal migration Labor migration Mexico migrant journeys Migrants Migration Migrations Mobility Morphological source materials Physical anthropology, ethnobiology political economy Profits Rethinking the State, Structural Violence, and Citizenship securitization Shelters Smuggling Social groups Structural analysis structural violence Undocumented Immigrants Violence World Economy Central America Mexico Travel Violence migrant journeys Political economy Undocumented migration Security Migrant Central America and Mexico commodification structural violence securitization
ISSN:	0094-0496, 1548-1425
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Shrnutí:	The undocumented-migrant journey across Mexico has become a site of intense violence, exploitation, and profit making within the logics of capitalism. While transnational migration is often conceptualized from the perspective of sending and receiving communities and borderlands, I suggest the liminal spaces between these zones are crucial sites for understanding how structural forms of violence are reconfigured in local settings. Drawing on my ethnographic fieldwork in migrant shelters located along the journey, I trace how Central American migrants' bodies, labor, and lives are transformed into commodities within economies of smuggling, extortion, and humanitarian aid. I argue that everyday violence along the journey is produced by historical trajectories of political and criminal violence and by local and global economies that profit from human mobility. As violence is rearticulated at the local level, new tensions and social dislocations emerge between and among social groups.
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ISSN:	0094-0496 1548-1425
DOI:	10.1111/amet.12053