The Migrant Passage

Clandestine Journeys from Central America

Bibliographic Data

ID19905927
AuthorsNoelle K Brigden (0000-0002-2317-2935, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages264
Publication date2018-12-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMigrant Passage (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501730566
OpenAlexW2911370366
Open LibraryOL33687639M
ISBN9781501730566
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDPn90DwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received53

At the crossroads between international relations and anthropology, The Migrant Passage analyzes how people from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala navigate the dangerous and uncertain clandestine journey across Mexico to the United States. However much advance planning they do, they survive the journey through improvisation. Central American migrants improvise upon social roles and physical objects, leveraging them for new purposes along the way. Over time, the accumulation of individual journeys has cut a path across the socioeconomic and political landscape of Mexico, generating a social and material infrastructure that guides future passages and complicates borders.Tracing the survival strategies of migrants during the journey to the North, The Migrant Passage shows how their mobility reshapes the social landscape of Mexico, and the book explores the implications for the future of sovereignty and the nation-state. To trace the continuous renewal of the transit corridor, Noelle Brigden draws upon over two years of in-depth, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork along human smuggling routes from Central America across Mexico and into the United States. In so doing, she shows the value of disciplinary and methodological border crossing between international relations and anthropology, to understand the relationships between human security, international borders, and clandestine transnationalism

Criminology · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Latin American and Latino Studies · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Aliens · Central Americans · emigration and immigration · General · Human smuggling · Illegal aliens · Illegal immigration · Mexico · Noncitizens · Social aspects · Social conditions · Social Science · Undocumented immigrants · united states · Violence against