Precarious mobility in Central America and southern Mexico: crises and the struggle to survive

Rojas Wiesner, M.L and Winton, A (2018) 'Precarious mobility in Central America and southern Mexico: crises and the struggle to survive.' In: Menjívar, C, Ruiz, M and Ness, I, eds. The Oxford handbook of migration crises. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 245-260. ISBN 9780190856908

Abstract

The widely reported increase in violence-based displacement from Central America to Mexico has been managed as a non-crisis by the Mexican government, which continues to try to assuage its powerful neighbours to the north and to control what has been termed the United States’ “third border” (Grayson 2006), between Mexico and Guatemala/Belize. This chapter is based on work that has sought to understand migration and displacement as lived experience, and argues that mobility is a deeply historical, personal, and conditioned process, in which the self—at the center of a complex web of shifting opportunities and oppressions—is itself in flux, at the apex of damage and possibility. Rather than crises, mobility is too often lived as protracted and contingent struggles.

Item Type:	Book Chapter or Section
Keywords:	displacement, forced migration, marginality, human security, border extension, North and Central America
Divisions:	School of Sciences
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2023 16:43
Last Modified:	24 Jan 2023 16:43
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/15167

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