Governed bodies, discarded bodies

Notes for an analysis of contemporary migrations during Covid-19

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ID7973510
AuthorsYerko Castro Neira (0000-0001-5499-6032)
Year2024
Volume44
Issue2
Pages235-251
Publication date2024-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02633957231165704
PMID40479000
OpenAlexW4366757820
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited21

This article presents the results of an ethnographic research conducted in the northern border of Mexico from 2019 to 2021, specifically in the city of Tijuana. The objective of this article is to analyse the role of bodies in border and migration management with special emphasis on the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. To do so, I focus on three situations. First is the case of migrants whose bodies are exploited in the precarious work opportunities they find along Mexico’s northern border. Second, I look at migrants who experience detention and confinement in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detention centres in the United States. And third, I analyse the situation of missing migrants whose bodies are sought by family members and numerous collectives in Mexico. Through the analysis of these situations, the article demonstrates that by using ‘bodies’ as a productive category for analysing migration and the containment of migratory movements, we can understand both the resulting negative effects on migrants’ subjectivity and bodies and how migrants respond to and challenge the global migration system

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Outbreak · Political science · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Medicine · Migration and Exile Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Virology

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