Caravanas de personas migrantes como expresiones contradictorias de tácticas de sobrevivencia y prácticas de subjetivación política

Bibliographic Data

ID5869744
AuthorsMaría Georgina Garibo García (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla), Tristan Call (0000-0001-8846-0156, Vanderbilt University), Tristan P Call
Year2020
Volume7
Issue2
Pages59-93
Publication date2020-07-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEntreDiversidades Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2007-7602 • E-ISSN: 2007-7610
PublisherUniversidad Autonoma de Chiapas (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31644/ed.v7.n2.2020.a03
OpenAlexW3045673088
LanguageES
Citations received7
References cited3

From our reflections based on participant observation and accompaniment of migrant caravans from southern Mexico northward, this work focuses on highlighting the different meanings of caravans in the current migratory era. We highlight how the collective action and, particularly, the political collective bodiment in movement1 (acuerpamiento) of the caravans is based on necessity and survival, a context that encourages, in an emergent, temporary and sometimes contradictory way, the participants’ practices of political subjectivation. We explore the tendencies of unity and fragmentation, the oft-criticized form of decision-making, the way of carrying onward despite the obstacles, the rejection of the “captive refugee” regime promoted by the Mexican government as well as by some civil society organizations, and how the appropriation of asylum as a tool paradoxically re-signifies the role of victims to which many have sought to limit migrants

Appropriation · Art · Collective action · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Ethnology · Humanities · Persona · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · History · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America

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