Violencia de género y frontera: migrantes centroamericanas en México hacia los EEUU
ISSN: 0924-0608
Year of publication: 2018
Issue: 105
Pages: 39-60
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe
Abstract
This text analyses the case of Central American migration in and through Mexico from an anthropological perspective and a feminist analysis applied to recent proposals on migration and mobility regimes. It seeks to reformulate traditional research questions that present the role of criminal violence as a causal meta-narrative that hides the role of sexual and gender-based violence in the migration of Central American women, and in doing so, it hides women’s agency in migration. The main contribution of this work is the feminist and gender analysis centred on ethnographic data obtained through fieldwork and the realisation of more than 50 in-depth interviews with Central American migrants, activists of feminist and migrant organisations, and politicians in Puebla (Mexico) in 2016 and 2017, a Mexican state located between the southern border and Mexico City that plays a central but unknown role in the transit of Central American migration.