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Forced Migration Across Mexico : Organized Violence, Migrant Struggles, and Life Trajectories by Ximena Alba Villalever (editor), Stephanie Schütze (editor), Ludger Pries (editor), Oscar Calderón Morillón (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book analyzes the different ways in which forced migration comes together with organized violence in the Americas, focusing specifically on the migration corridor from Central America, through Mexico and on to the United States. No matter their starting point, most South and Central American migrants to the United States must eventually traverse Mexico, and often many other borders beforehand, to reach their destination. As border controls tighten, for many migrants turning back is not a possibility, or something they desire. And so, when faced with hardening policies, migrants are often forced into situations of increased violence and precarity, without a shift in their ultimate objective. This book analyzes the complex social situations of everyday violence, and increasingly aggressive border controls, which face migrants in Mexico, as well as their exposure to a different kind of violence during their migration trajectory through the criminal actors such as gangs, cartels, and corrupt law enforcements that seek to make a profit from them. The book takes a critical approach on migration policies and on the externalization of borders by analyzing their effects on the trajecto

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Author

Ximena Alba Villalever (editor), Stephanie Schütze (editor), Ludger Pries (editor), Oscar Calderón Morillón (editor)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781003860631

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science