A movement in motion: collective mobility and embodied practice in the central American migrant caravan

Wurtz, Heather

doi:10.1080/17450101.2020.1806511

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“…The labor shortage expressed by farm owners during this research occurred simultaneous to the 'migrant caravan' of 2018 in which thousands of Central Americans risked their lives to find economic opportunity in the United States(Wurtz 2020).…”

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Sanitizing agri-food tech: COVID-19 and the politics of expectation

Reisman

2021

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Several emerging technologies for agri-food systems are promoted by supporters as alleviating the instabilities of COVID-19 and thus increasingly necessary and inevitable. Compelled to pivot towards the pandemic, technologists align their projects with narratives of safety, security and resilience. This paper highlights the political contours of these technologies, arguing that proposed innovations are far from neutral paths toward a more sanitary and secure agri-food future. Most are limited in their capacity to disrupt patterns of racial and geopolitical hierarchy, ecological precarity, and concentrated power in the food system, or to fulfill pandemic relief promises in their current form.

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Sanitizing agri-food tech: COVID-19 and the politics of expectation

Reisman

2021

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…So it does for documenting changes in migration flows, people's containment and authority abuse by state actors, and the perpetration of crimes against people en route through Mexico. In this way, Casa para Todes contributes to a network of researchers and organizations advocating for the protection of “migrant populations” and broader changes in the migration policy (Wurtz, 2020 ). It is nevertheless problematic that the intake process for “the migrant” emphasizes the exceptionality of their mobility trajectory, being imposed by the state logics of criminalized migrations and following gender-, ethnicity-, and class-related markers.…”

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“…The shelter organization in Mexico called Casa para Todes (House for Everyone) 1 , is embedded in a violent landscape of undocumented migration (Vogt, 2013 ; Estévez, 2014 ) historically shaped by the United States migration policy. In general, shelters in Mexico work as important stepping stones for people's trajectories, and they form a networked infrastructure for people on the move (e.g., Marchand, 2020 ; Wurtz, 2020 ). The shelter organization in the Netherlands called Iedereen Welkom (Everyone Welcome) is embedded in a typically Western European welfare-state model.…”

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Sheltering difference: (un)doing the migrant/volunteer divide through sheltering practices in Mexico and the Netherlands

2023

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While acknowledging the important role of shelter organizations in protecting migrant rights, recent debates point to the thin line between care and control practices within shelters. This study seeks to deepen this observation by approaching shelters as spaces defined by a constant inward/outward mobility of people. From this starting point, we use the de-migranticization framework to understand and question the normalization of difference that divides migrant people (being reproduced as the typical guest) from international volunteers (being reproduced as the typical host) through sheltering practices in two rather different geopolitical contexts (Mexico and the Netherlands). We use our ethnographic insights to not only illustrate how difference is reproduced but also to analyze the practices that seek to transgress and undo these divides. We argue that highlighting the conviviality and interconnectedness between these differentiated actors in the broader context of cross-border mobility is of vital importance to question and overcome the coloniality of contemporary border regimes. However, we do not imply that these aspects have the potential to completely undo difference, as they are a constant struggle embedded in the relational practices of the people composing such a divide.

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“…Lastly, travelling in large groups, which are organized by civil society, is a collective social protest of resistance that fosters solidarity among its members. Within this migrant struggle, this form of collective mobility is a social movement that serves to call attention to, and bears witness to the gang violence, poverty, inequality, and environmental devastation its members endure (Wurtz 2020). It is a form of resistance that seeks to identify social and political demands and fights for the rights of its members; the right to move, the right to seek asylum, the right to a life free from violence, the right to survive.…”

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The More Things Change, The More they Stay the Same: Border Governance and Resistance along Mexico’s Southern Border with Guatemala

Angulo-Pasel

2022

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With the politics of borders, the socio-economic divide between the United States and Mexico is evident. The geographic proximity to the U.S. makes the Mexico–Guatemala border an extension of the U.S. border enforcement regime. This article argues that the politics surrounding the U.S.–Guatemala border have not necessarily changed, because, at the core, the main objective of these border governance practices is to stop the movement of undesirable bodies (Khosravi 2011). Further, the article argues that the practices of containment force migrants to resist through their movement and seek strategies of survival. By comparing the administrations of Peña Nieto and López Obrador (AMLO) and analyzing the survival strategy of migrant “caravans” through border policy analysis and fieldwork conducted in 2014, I show that this border is a site of struggle between the state’s power and migrants’ forms of resistance. I find that border tactics are influenced by U.S. border enforcement requirements of increased militarization and policing, but also aim to restrict and control certain populations. The result is the perpetual securitization of people and the militarization of pathways. Migrants, however, also employ forms of organizing such as travelling in mass groups to achieve safe passage, thus exercising their agency through movement. The bordering practices and the forms of resistance indicate that this border is a constant site of struggle that requires further examination.

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A movement in motion: collective mobility and embodied practice in the central American migrant caravan

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Sanitizing agri-food tech: COVID-19 and the politics of expectation

Sanitizing agri-food tech: COVID-19 and the politics of expectation

Sheltering difference: (un)doing the migrant/volunteer divide through sheltering practices in Mexico and the Netherlands

The More Things Change, The More they Stay the Same: Border Governance and Resistance along Mexico’s Southern Border with Guatemala

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