Alejandra Díaz De León
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 115846 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alejandra Díaz De León |
| PRENOMES | Alejandra Díaz |
| SOBRENOME | De León |
| ASSINATURA | DE LEÓN A D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | El Colegio de México |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0560-4079 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
“Little pains” and endurance
How do migrants in transit through Mexico interpret and manage the injuries and diseases they experience on their route? We argue that migrants in transit attempt to minimise their ill-health while at the same time engaging in health practices to keep moving to arrive at their destination. Through ethnographic research in migrant shelters in Mexico, we examine the reasons migrants give to minimise their injuries: 1) they believe pain is contingen…
Humanitarian aid and the everyday invisibility of climate-related migration from Central America
This article examines how everyday practices of humanitarian documentation shape the visibility of climate-related migration from Central America. Based on participant observation and interviews with migrants at a humanitarian aid shelter in Mexico, we argue that existing documentation practices may contribute to the everyday erasure of climate-related migration. We observed that migrants rarely mentioned climate change during routine shelter int…
Family dynamics, violence and transit migration through Mexico
I explore how violence and uncertainty affect straight migrant families in the context of their transit through Mexico. Based on 15 months’ of multi-situated fieldwork, I argue that there are multiple ways for people to react to migration. While some men challenge the masculine patriarchal stereotypes and become more caring, others attempt to reinforce traditional gender roles. Women become resourceful and try to build networks with other women. …
Mujeres a la fuga. Narrativa del viaje como vehículo de resistencia para las mujeres en tránsito por México
Migrants in transit through Mexico face a heavy bureaucratic machinery aimed at preventing them from reaching the United States. In Mexico, women continue to be neglected by the relevant authorities and abused by individuals who devalue their lives and profit from their bodies. Despite the growing literature on the dangers faced by migrant women and children in transit through Mexico, the authorities and much of the academic community continue to…
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice
The Shelter Multiple
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork at a nongovernmental migrant shelter in Mexico to examine how aid workers coordinate apparently contradictory humanitarian orientations. Prior research has called attention to the institutionalization of grassroots humanitarian organizations as they take on the work of categorizing migrants as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’, ‘worthy’ or ‘unworthy’. Studies also call attention to initiatives that oppose such in…
Towards a social determination of health framework for understanding climate disruption and health-disease processes
We compare the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the social determination of health (SDET) from the school of Latin American Social Medicine/Collective Health. Whereas SDET acknowledges how capitalist rule continues to shape global structures and public health concerns, SDOH proffers neoliberal solutions that obscure much of the violence and dispossession that influence contemporary migration and health-disease experiences. Working in simu…
Walking Together
Why do you trust him? The construction of the good migrant in the Mexican migrant route
How do Central American migrants in transit decide which other migrants they can trust when they are crossing Mexico? In this article, based on extensive multi-situated ethnography in Mexico, I suggest that migrants look for the same signs and signals when deciding whom to trust, thus creating a single, ideal “good migrant”. This stereotype is fed to them by the migrant shelters and advocacy institutions which, in an effort to protect the migrant…
Diseño de investigación-acción participativa
En esta nota discutimos un diseño de investigación-acción participativa digital que estamos desarrollando para colaborar con el personal de los espacios de ayuda humanitaria a migrantes internacionales en México. Nuestra investigación se propone observar cómo el ethos, definido como la forma en la que el personal de estos espacios para migrantes percibe su propia actividad o labores hacia las personas que reciben, podría afectar el tipo de activi…
Transient Communities”
Migrants in transit through Mexico are often separated from their social networks; this increases the risks associated with an already precarious process. Through eight months’ worth of ethnography and 40 in-depth interviews conducted on the southern and northern borders of Mexico, this article seeks to understand how migrants compensate for their lack of social networks and find emotional and economic support and information while in transit. Th…
Walking Together
Transient Communities”
Migrants in transit through Mexico are often separated from their social networks; this increases the risks associated with an already precarious process. Through eight months’ worth of ethnography and 40 in-depth interviews conducted on the southern and northern borders of Mexico, this article seeks to understand how migrants compensate for their lack of social networks and find emotional and economic support and information while in transit. Th…
The Shelter Multiple
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork at a nongovernmental migrant shelter in Mexico to examine how aid workers coordinate apparently contradictory humanitarian orientations. Prior research has called attention to the institutionalization of grassroots humanitarian organizations as they take on the work of categorizing migrants as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’, ‘worthy’ or ‘unworthy’. Studies also call attention to initiatives that oppose such in…
Why do you trust him? The construction of the good migrant in the Mexican migrant route
How do Central American migrants in transit decide which other migrants they can trust when they are crossing Mexico? In this article, based on extensive multi-situated ethnography in Mexico, I suggest that migrants look for the same signs and signals when deciding whom to trust, thus creating a single, ideal “good migrant”. This stereotype is fed to them by the migrant shelters and advocacy institutions which, in an effort to protect the migrant…
Family dynamics, violence and transit migration through Mexico
I explore how violence and uncertainty affect straight migrant families in the context of their transit through Mexico. Based on 15 months’ of multi-situated fieldwork, I argue that there are multiple ways for people to react to migration. While some men challenge the masculine patriarchal stereotypes and become more caring, others attempt to reinforce traditional gender roles. Women become resourceful and try to build networks with other women. …
Towards a social determination of health framework for understanding climate disruption and health-disease processes
We compare the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the social determination of health (SDET) from the school of Latin American Social Medicine/Collective Health. Whereas SDET acknowledges how capitalist rule continues to shape global structures and public health concerns, SDOH proffers neoliberal solutions that obscure much of the violence and dispossession that influence contemporary migration and health-disease experiences. Working in simu…
Diseño de investigación-acción participativa
En esta nota discutimos un diseño de investigación-acción participativa digital que estamos desarrollando para colaborar con el personal de los espacios de ayuda humanitaria a migrantes internacionales en México. Nuestra investigación se propone observar cómo el ethos, definido como la forma en la que el personal de estos espacios para migrantes percibe su propia actividad o labores hacia las personas que reciben, podría afectar el tipo de activi…
Transient Communities”
Migrants in transit through Mexico are often separated from their social networks; this increases the risks associated with an already precarious process. Through eight months’ worth of ethnography and 40 in-depth interviews conducted on the southern and northern borders of Mexico, this article seeks to understand how migrants compensate for their lack of social networks and find emotional and economic support and information while in transit. Th…
Why do you trust him? The construction of the good migrant in the Mexican migrant route
How do Central American migrants in transit decide which other migrants they can trust when they are crossing Mexico? In this article, based on extensive multi-situated ethnography in Mexico, I suggest that migrants look for the same signs and signals when deciding whom to trust, thus creating a single, ideal “good migrant”. This stereotype is fed to them by the migrant shelters and advocacy institutions which, in an effort to protect the migrant…
Diseño de investigación-acción participativa
En esta nota discutimos un diseño de investigación-acción participativa digital que estamos desarrollando para colaborar con el personal de los espacios de ayuda humanitaria a migrantes internacionales en México. Nuestra investigación se propone observar cómo el ethos, definido como la forma en la que el personal de estos espacios para migrantes percibe su propia actividad o labores hacia las personas que reciben, podría afectar el tipo de activi…
Walking Together
Family dynamics, violence and transit migration through Mexico
I explore how violence and uncertainty affect straight migrant families in the context of their transit through Mexico. Based on 15 months’ of multi-situated fieldwork, I argue that there are multiple ways for people to react to migration. While some men challenge the masculine patriarchal stereotypes and become more caring, others attempt to reinforce traditional gender roles. Women become resourceful and try to build networks with other women. …
Mujeres a la fuga. Narrativa del viaje como vehículo de resistencia para las mujeres en tránsito por México
Migrants in transit through Mexico face a heavy bureaucratic machinery aimed at preventing them from reaching the United States. In Mexico, women continue to be neglected by the relevant authorities and abused by individuals who devalue their lives and profit from their bodies. Despite the growing literature on the dangers faced by migrant women and children in transit through Mexico, the authorities and much of the academic community continue to…
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice
The Shelter Multiple
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork at a nongovernmental migrant shelter in Mexico to examine how aid workers coordinate apparently contradictory humanitarian orientations. Prior research has called attention to the institutionalization of grassroots humanitarian organizations as they take on the work of categorizing migrants as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’, ‘worthy’ or ‘unworthy’. Studies also call attention to initiatives that oppose such in…
Towards a social determination of health framework for understanding climate disruption and health-disease processes
We compare the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the social determination of health (SDET) from the school of Latin American Social Medicine/Collective Health. Whereas SDET acknowledges how capitalist rule continues to shape global structures and public health concerns, SDOH proffers neoliberal solutions that obscure much of the violence and dispossession that influence contemporary migration and health-disease experiences. Working in simu…
Humanitarian aid and the everyday invisibility of climate-related migration from Central America
This article examines how everyday practices of humanitarian documentation shape the visibility of climate-related migration from Central America. Based on participant observation and interviews with migrants at a humanitarian aid shelter in Mexico, we argue that existing documentation practices may contribute to the everyday erasure of climate-related migration. We observed that migrants rarely mentioned climate change during routine shelter int…
“Little pains” and endurance
How do migrants in transit through Mexico interpret and manage the injuries and diseases they experience on their route? We argue that migrants in transit attempt to minimise their ill-health while at the same time engaging in health practices to keep moving to arrive at their destination. Through ethnographic research in migrant shelters in Mexico, we examine the reasons migrants give to minimise their injuries: 1) they believe pain is contingen…
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