Ph.D., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Areas of interest include migration; feminist theorizing of vulnerability and resistance; gender and conflict.
Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice, 2021
This chapter presents a preliminary discursive analysis of the contemporary “immigration state of... more This chapter presents a preliminary discursive analysis of the contemporary “immigration state of emergency” (Oliviero, 2013) that was posited by the Trump administration in response to the emergence of the 2018 migrant caravans. The Trump administration's use of a rhetoric of crisis, threat and even humanitarian protection to justify punitive immigration policies follows a long history in the United States of framing migration as a source of crisis and emergency, producing migrants as subjects of state power and control. In this chapter, we present an alternative genealogy of the caravanization of migration, arguing that the migrant caravans, organized for the protection and preservation of migrants’ lives, represent a modality of resistance and self-defence. This emerging Mesoamerican social movement (Balaguera and Gonzales, 2018) of the displaced has challenged the grammar with which migration is understood, explained and managed and has generated a shift in the networks of solidarity and radical hospitality in Mexico.
Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, n.º 122, 2019
Resumen: Este artículo presenta los avances de una investigación en curso sobre las caravanas de ... more Resumen: Este artículo presenta los avances de una investigación en curso sobre las caravanas de migrantes en México o los éxodos de desplazados centroamericanos-que tienen lugar desde 2011, pero que se intensificaron a partir 2018-, los cuales desafían con su presencia la gramática con la que se narran y se practican formas específicas de gubernamentalidad migratoria y, al mismo tiempo, consolidan una forma de autodefensa-o insurrección-migrante cuyas principales características son el caminar en masa, sin coyotes y sin permiso legal, por los caminos controlados por agentes migratorios coludidos con el crimen organizado y que siguen ejerciendo un «gobierno privado indirecto». Este trabajo constituye, en definitiva, una re-flexión sobre los resultados obtenidos de la investigación en curso, principalmente de corte genealógico o histórico. Palabras clave: caravanas de migrantes, éxodo, insurrección migrante, México, Estados Unidos, América Central
Resumen: Este artículo presenta los avances de una investigación en curso sobre las caravanas de ... more Resumen: Este artículo presenta los avances de una investigación en curso sobre las caravanas de migrantes en México o los éxodos de desplazados centroamericanos-que tienen lugar desde 2011, pero que se intensificaron a partir 2018-, los cuales desafían con su presencia la gramática con la que se narran y se practican formas específicas de gubernamentalidad migratoria y, al mismo tiempo, consolidan una forma de autodefensa- o insurrección-migrante cuyas principales características son el caminar en masa, sin coyotes y sin permiso legal, por los caminos controlados por agentes migratorios coludidos con el crimen organizado y que siguen ejerciendo un «gobierno privado indirecto». Este trabajo constituye, en definitiva, una re-flexión sobre los resultados obtenidos de la investigación en curso, principalmente de corte genealógico o histórico.
Abstract: This paper presents the progress of ongoing research into the migrant caravans in Mexico or the exoduses of displaced Central Americans taking place since 2011, but which intensified in 2018. Their presence challenges the grammar of narrating and practising specific forms of migration governmentality, while at the same time forming a kind of migrant self-defence or insurrection, whose main characteristics are walking en masse, without coyotes or legal permission, and along paths controlled by migration agents colluding with organised crime who continue to exercise an "indirect private government". In short, this paper is a reflection on the results obtained from the ongoing research, which is mainly genealogical and historical in nature.
Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice, 2021
This chapter presents a preliminary discursive analysis of the contemporary “immigration state of... more This chapter presents a preliminary discursive analysis of the contemporary “immigration state of emergency” (Oliviero, 2013) that was posited by the Trump administration in response to the emergence of the 2018 migrant caravans. The Trump administration's use of a rhetoric of crisis, threat and even humanitarian protection to justify punitive immigration policies follows a long history in the United States of framing migration as a source of crisis and emergency, producing migrants as subjects of state power and control. In this chapter, we present an alternative genealogy of the caravanization of migration, arguing that the migrant caravans, organized for the protection and preservation of migrants’ lives, represent a modality of resistance and self-defence. This emerging Mesoamerican social movement (Balaguera and Gonzales, 2018) of the displaced has challenged the grammar with which migration is understood, explained and managed and has generated a shift in the networks of solidarity and radical hospitality in Mexico.
Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, n.º 122, 2019
Resumen: Este artículo presenta los avances de una investigación en curso sobre las caravanas de ... more Resumen: Este artículo presenta los avances de una investigación en curso sobre las caravanas de migrantes en México o los éxodos de desplazados centroamericanos-que tienen lugar desde 2011, pero que se intensificaron a partir 2018-, los cuales desafían con su presencia la gramática con la que se narran y se practican formas específicas de gubernamentalidad migratoria y, al mismo tiempo, consolidan una forma de autodefensa-o insurrección-migrante cuyas principales características son el caminar en masa, sin coyotes y sin permiso legal, por los caminos controlados por agentes migratorios coludidos con el crimen organizado y que siguen ejerciendo un «gobierno privado indirecto». Este trabajo constituye, en definitiva, una re-flexión sobre los resultados obtenidos de la investigación en curso, principalmente de corte genealógico o histórico. Palabras clave: caravanas de migrantes, éxodo, insurrección migrante, México, Estados Unidos, América Central
Resumen: Este artículo presenta los avances de una investigación en curso sobre las caravanas de ... more Resumen: Este artículo presenta los avances de una investigación en curso sobre las caravanas de migrantes en México o los éxodos de desplazados centroamericanos-que tienen lugar desde 2011, pero que se intensificaron a partir 2018-, los cuales desafían con su presencia la gramática con la que se narran y se practican formas específicas de gubernamentalidad migratoria y, al mismo tiempo, consolidan una forma de autodefensa- o insurrección-migrante cuyas principales características son el caminar en masa, sin coyotes y sin permiso legal, por los caminos controlados por agentes migratorios coludidos con el crimen organizado y que siguen ejerciendo un «gobierno privado indirecto». Este trabajo constituye, en definitiva, una re-flexión sobre los resultados obtenidos de la investigación en curso, principalmente de corte genealógico o histórico.
Abstract: This paper presents the progress of ongoing research into the migrant caravans in Mexico or the exoduses of displaced Central Americans taking place since 2011, but which intensified in 2018. Their presence challenges the grammar of narrating and practising specific forms of migration governmentality, while at the same time forming a kind of migrant self-defence or insurrection, whose main characteristics are walking en masse, without coyotes or legal permission, and along paths controlled by migration agents colluding with organised crime who continue to exercise an "indirect private government". In short, this paper is a reflection on the results obtained from the ongoing research, which is mainly genealogical and historical in nature.
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Palabras clave: caravanas de migrantes, éxodo, insurrección migrante, México, Estados Unidos, América Central
Abstract: This paper presents the progress of ongoing research into the migrant caravans in Mexico or the exoduses of displaced Central Americans taking place since 2011, but which intensified in 2018. Their presence challenges the grammar of narrating and practising specific forms of migration governmentality, while at the same time forming a kind of migrant self-defence or insurrection, whose main characteristics are walking en masse, without coyotes or legal permission, and along paths controlled by migration agents colluding with organised crime who continue to exercise an "indirect private government". In short, this paper is a reflection on the results obtained from the ongoing research, which is mainly genealogical and historical in nature.
Palabras clave: caravanas de migrantes, éxodo, insurrección migrante, México, Estados Unidos, América Central
Abstract: This paper presents the progress of ongoing research into the migrant caravans in Mexico or the exoduses of displaced Central Americans taking place since 2011, but which intensified in 2018. Their presence challenges the grammar of narrating and practising specific forms of migration governmentality, while at the same time forming a kind of migrant self-defence or insurrection, whose main characteristics are walking en masse, without coyotes or legal permission, and along paths controlled by migration agents colluding with organised crime who continue to exercise an "indirect private government". In short, this paper is a reflection on the results obtained from the ongoing research, which is mainly genealogical and historical in nature.