On the Back of La Bestia: Violence Against Migrants in Transit through Mexico

 

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Autor: Herrera Mejía, Leonardo
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2025
Descripción:Mexico is traveled by thousands of migrants, mostly Central Americans in search of the “American dream”, many of them board freight trains, risking their lives. Added to this risk is the violence inflicted on them by the authorities, police, criminals, organized crime and inhabitants of different communities. Two causes of said violence are analyzed. The first is that migrants have become economic loot, that is, the commodification of humans. This occurs as a result of the second cause, the construction of an otherness, in two senses, on the one hand, a growing xenophobia induced and on the other the disqualification as humans, an act that leads to abuses against them.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/2718
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ranuario/article/view/2718
Palabra clave:violence
transmigration
Central America
Mexico
La Bestia
violencia
transmigración
Centroamérica
México