- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Migration Crises: Definitions, Critiques, and Global Contexts
- Migrations and Macro-Regions in Times of Crises: Long-Term Historiographic Perspectives
- Migrants in Crisis in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Memories of a French Migration Crisis: The Harkis
- Decolonization, Nation Building, and Migration Crises in Southeast Asia
- Migration Crisis and “Brexit”
- Refugee and Romani Immigrant Populations in Barcelona
- The Myth of a Migration Crisis in France: Transformations of Public Actions and Solidarist Actions
- The Manufacturing of the US-Mexico Border Crisis
- Refugees in the United States and the Politics of Crisis
- The Politics of the Refugee Crisis in Hungary: Bordering and Ordering the Nation and Its Others
- East Asian Exceptionalism to Western Populism and Migration Crisis
- Central American Refugees Reveal the Crisis of the State
- Conflicting Perspectives on the “Migrant Crisis” in the Horn of Africa
- Precarious Mobility in Central America and Southern Mexico: Crises and the Struggle to Survive
- Migration, Crises, and Social Transformation in India Since the 1990s
- Syrian Refugees and Turkey: Whose “Crisis”?
- Climate-Migration Responses in the Pacific Region
- Migration and Environmental Crises in Africa
- Effects of Climate Change on Migration Crises in Oceania
- Climate Change and Migration Crisis in Africa
- “Refugee Crisis” in the Southeastern European Countries: The Rise and Fall of the Balkan Corridor
- Wars and Migration Crises in Central America: On Missing Persons during Armed Conflict and International Migration
- Afghan Experiences of Displacement
- Migration Crises in Turkey
- Managing the “Refugee Crisis” along the Balkan Route: Field Notes from Serbia
- The Criminalization of Migration in Canada and Its Unintended Policy Consequences
- Violence at the US-Mexico Border
- Regional Migration and Argentina’s “Hospitality” in Crisis
- Australia and People Seeking Asylum who Arrive by Boat
- The Crisis Mentality of Russian Migration Management
- The United States and Migration Crises: Refugees in the Past and Present
- Deportation, Crisis, and Social Change
- Ethics and Migration Crises
- Migration Flows and Migration Crisis in Southern Europe
- Narratives of Crisis Migration and the Power of Visual Culture
- Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts
- Gender and Social Exclusion in European Migration Crisis: A Sociohistorical Perspective
- LGBTQ Migration Crises
- The Post-Communist Identity Crisis and Queer Migration from Poland
- A Gendered Analysis of the European Refugee “Crisis”
- Human Trafficking as a Migration Crisis: Gender, Precariousness, and Access to Labor Rights
- Sanctuary and Unsettling “the” Refugee Crisis
- The Syrian Refugee Crisis, Multiculturalism Issues, and Integration in Canada
- Migration and Integration in China
- The Paradox of Immigrant Political Participation in Europe amidst Crises of Multiculturalism
- Migration to Australia in Times of Crisis
- Migration Crisis and Social Trauma
- The Crisis of Gulf Migration
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
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.
Keywords: displacement, forced migration, marginality, human security, border extension, North and Central America
Martha Luz Rojas Wiesner holds a PhD in social science with a specialization in sociology from El Colegio de México. She is Senior Researcher in the Department of Society and Culture of El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. She conducts studies on Central American migration and women’s migration in particular on the southern border of Mexico, around issues related to social vulnerability, precariousness, and migration, as well as the inclusion and exclusion of migrants.
Ailsa Winton holds a PhD in geography from Queen Mary, University of London; she is currently Senior Researcher in the Department of Society and Culture in El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Tapachula, Chiapas, and part of the Migration and Border Studies group. Her research interests relate broadly to the critical geographies of marginality and violence. Recently her work has focused specifically on the dynamics and pg xxviilived repercussions of violence-based displacement in northern Central America and southern Mexico, including research on LGBTQ mobility.
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- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Migration Crises: Definitions, Critiques, and Global Contexts
- Migrations and Macro-Regions in Times of Crises: Long-Term Historiographic Perspectives
- Migrants in Crisis in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Memories of a French Migration Crisis: The Harkis
- Decolonization, Nation Building, and Migration Crises in Southeast Asia
- Migration Crisis and “Brexit”
- Refugee and Romani Immigrant Populations in Barcelona
- The Myth of a Migration Crisis in France: Transformations of Public Actions and Solidarist Actions
- The Manufacturing of the US-Mexico Border Crisis
- Refugees in the United States and the Politics of Crisis
- The Politics of the Refugee Crisis in Hungary: Bordering and Ordering the Nation and Its Others
- East Asian Exceptionalism to Western Populism and Migration Crisis
- Central American Refugees Reveal the Crisis of the State
- Conflicting Perspectives on the “Migrant Crisis” in the Horn of Africa
- Precarious Mobility in Central America and Southern Mexico: Crises and the Struggle to Survive
- Migration, Crises, and Social Transformation in India Since the 1990s
- Syrian Refugees and Turkey: Whose “Crisis”?
- Climate-Migration Responses in the Pacific Region
- Migration and Environmental Crises in Africa
- Effects of Climate Change on Migration Crises in Oceania
- Climate Change and Migration Crisis in Africa
- “Refugee Crisis” in the Southeastern European Countries: The Rise and Fall of the Balkan Corridor
- Wars and Migration Crises in Central America: On Missing Persons during Armed Conflict and International Migration
- Afghan Experiences of Displacement
- Migration Crises in Turkey
- Managing the “Refugee Crisis” along the Balkan Route: Field Notes from Serbia
- The Criminalization of Migration in Canada and Its Unintended Policy Consequences
- Violence at the US-Mexico Border
- Regional Migration and Argentina’s “Hospitality” in Crisis
- Australia and People Seeking Asylum who Arrive by Boat
- The Crisis Mentality of Russian Migration Management
- The United States and Migration Crises: Refugees in the Past and Present
- Deportation, Crisis, and Social Change
- Ethics and Migration Crises
- Migration Flows and Migration Crisis in Southern Europe
- Narratives of Crisis Migration and the Power of Visual Culture
- Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts
- Gender and Social Exclusion in European Migration Crisis: A Sociohistorical Perspective
- LGBTQ Migration Crises
- The Post-Communist Identity Crisis and Queer Migration from Poland
- A Gendered Analysis of the European Refugee “Crisis”
- Human Trafficking as a Migration Crisis: Gender, Precariousness, and Access to Labor Rights
- Sanctuary and Unsettling “the” Refugee Crisis
- The Syrian Refugee Crisis, Multiculturalism Issues, and Integration in Canada
- Migration and Integration in China
- The Paradox of Immigrant Political Participation in Europe amidst Crises of Multiculturalism
- Migration to Australia in Times of Crisis
- Migration Crisis and Social Trauma
- The Crisis of Gulf Migration
- Index
