Description
Book SynopsisAt the crossroads between international relations and anthropology, The Migrant Passage analyzes how people from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala navigate the dangerous and uncertain clandestine journey across Mexico to the United States. However much advance planning they do, they survive the journey through improvisation. Central American migrants improvise upon social roles and physical objects, leveraging them for new purposes along the way. Over time, the accumulation of individual journeys has cut a path across the socioeconomic and political landscape of Mexico, generating a social and material infrastructure that guides future passages and complicates borders.
Tracing the survival strategies of migrants during the journey to the North, The Migrant Passage shows how their mobility reshapes the social landscape of Mexico, and the book explores the implications for the future of sovereignty and the nation-state. To trace the continuous renewal of the transit co
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This volume details the ways in which migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala both plan their journeys and improvise as they make their way to the United States via Mexico. Their activities have served to alter the 'social landscape' of Mexico, says Brigden, and even call into question the viability of the nation-state.
* Survival: Global politics and strategy *
Table of ContentsACT 1.: EXPOSITION
1. The Opening Scene: A Journey Begins
2. The Plot: Migration Stories Take Shape
3. The Cast of Characters: Actors and Their Relationships En Route
ACT 2.: RISING ACTION
4. The Performance: Migrant Scripts and Roles
5. The Stage: Mobile Images and Props
ACT 3.: CLIMAX
6. A Tragedy: Conclusions and Implications
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
