The Scales of Translocal Solidarity

Accompaniment, Mutuality, and Flourishing, Here and There

Bibliographic Data

ID3021360
AuthorsAlexandra Délano Alonso (0009-0006-0688-2130, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume8
Issue1
Pages153-171
Publication date2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMigration and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2574-1306 • E-ISSN: 2574-1314
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/arms.2025.080111
OpenAlexW4414012549
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

This article discusses migrant solidarity projects across the Mexico-US border, considering community organizations and shelters that practice forms of accompaniment, mutuality, and flourishing that seek to transform structural conditions across different struggles that implicate both migrants and the communities that they join. Through interviews, participant observation, and a research practice informed by principles of solidarity and mutual aid learned in the process, this article examines the translocal scales that connect these strategies and principles across three different sites in the two countries: La 72 migrant home-shelter in Tenosique, Tabasco; La Morada mutual aid in The Bronx, New York; and Otros Dreams en Acción (ODA) in Mexico City. How and where is transformative solidarity put in practice within and across these local sites? Through the perspectives of activists and organizers within these spaces, the article examines different everyday practices through which they challenge the border regime and prefigure alternative ways of living

Geography · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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