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Drawing on Foucault's notion of the 'techniques of the self, ' this chapter illustrates various techniques migrants employ to overcome the paralysing effect of precarity, shaped in the context of the United States biopolitics of citizenship, on their mobility. On the basis of migrants' narratives, the chapter discusses such techniques of the self as spirituality, self-concealment, 'passing as Mexicans', outmanoeuvring the enemy, the art of self-preservation, and the art of vigilance. It illustrates that migrants acquire knowledge of these techniques from their own experiences or from those of other migrants. Migrants train themselves to become resilient and resourceful. Yet, as the chapter maintains, these techniques cannot guarantee that migrants' mobility will not be disrupted. Migrants' journeys consist of intersecting and interchangeable patterns of mobility and immobility, and the two may co-exist: migrants continue to plan and prepare for their journeys while remaining (at least temporarily) immobilized.

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