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Atrocity and Undocumented Migrants in Transit in Mexico's War on Drugs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2370770
AutoresJavier Treviño‐rangel (0000-0002-0041-6300, University of Northumbria, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen47
Número4-5
Páginas777-793
Fecha de publicación2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920520961815
OpenAlexW3088095884
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas23

Undocumented migrants in transit in Mexico are victims of atrocity. The subject has been largely ignored by scholars, however, until recently when a number of migration experts became interested in the matter. Most observers argue that abuses suffered by migrants are the consequence of the 'securitization' of Mexican immigration policy. For them, Mexican authorities perceive migrants from Central America as a threat to national security and have hardened laws and migratory practices as a result, but there is insufficient evidence to support these claims. This article looks at the political economy of undocumented migration in transit in Mexico and the violence associated with it. It investigates the abuses suffered by migrants not as the result of supposed security policies but rather as the consequence of the interplay between local and global economies that generate profits from undocumented migration. The article explores the role played by state officials, cartels and ordinary Mexicans in the migration industry

Criminology · Development economics · Drug trafficking · Economics · Economy · Immigration · Mexican State · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Securitization · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration