Abstract:Resumen En el último cuarto de siglo, en México, se han incrementado de manera notoria las medidas de control y verificación migratorias, enmarcadas en argumentos relacionados con la soberanía y la seguridad nacional. Las políticas migratorias restrictivas derivadas de este tipo de preocupaciones se han enfocado en la gestión de flujos migratorios, lo que ha tenido distintas consecuencias, no sólo en la producción de irregularidad migratoria sino, además, en los obstáculos que existen para que los migrantes se… Show more
“…They then attempt to make the 2655 km journey to the Mexico-U.S. border on foot and on the tops of freight trains, stopping at migrant shelters for respite along the way (Basok and Rojas Wiesner, 2018;Candiz and Bélanger, 2018). Although Mexican authorities frame migration policies as protecting migrants by keeping them off of freight trains not designed for passengers and fighting criminal groups that violate migrant rights, in practice the policies have used U.S. assistance to advance migration control and management in the region (Marchand, 2017;Olayo-Mendez, 2018;Rojas Wiesner and Basok, 2020;Wilson-Forsberg and Parra, 2022). With migration controls becoming increasingly more strict and harsh over the past few years, people are attempting to move through longer, more dangerous routes increasing their vulnerability to exploitation and violence (Brigden, 2018;Canales Cerón and Rojas Wiesner, 2018).…”
This paper examines the written reflections of 30 Canadian undergraduate students who participated in an international field course focusing on migration and human rights in Mexico. It endeavors to understand how the students reconciled their thoughts and feelings about trauma and oppression in an intercultural setting. Borrowing Foucault’s ‘ethic of discomfort’, which emphasizes the proactive and transformative potential of discomfort in education, the paper extends existing scholarship in teaching and learning around study abroad and social justice by focusing on ethically complex situations in the field. The findings reveal that while preparation for unprecedented and unforeseeable scenarios during an international field course was challenging for faculty, exposing students to the realities of migration ultimately facilitated learning.
“…They then attempt to make the 2655 km journey to the Mexico-U.S. border on foot and on the tops of freight trains, stopping at migrant shelters for respite along the way (Basok and Rojas Wiesner, 2018;Candiz and Bélanger, 2018). Although Mexican authorities frame migration policies as protecting migrants by keeping them off of freight trains not designed for passengers and fighting criminal groups that violate migrant rights, in practice the policies have used U.S. assistance to advance migration control and management in the region (Marchand, 2017;Olayo-Mendez, 2018;Rojas Wiesner and Basok, 2020;Wilson-Forsberg and Parra, 2022). With migration controls becoming increasingly more strict and harsh over the past few years, people are attempting to move through longer, more dangerous routes increasing their vulnerability to exploitation and violence (Brigden, 2018;Canales Cerón and Rojas Wiesner, 2018).…”
This paper examines the written reflections of 30 Canadian undergraduate students who participated in an international field course focusing on migration and human rights in Mexico. It endeavors to understand how the students reconciled their thoughts and feelings about trauma and oppression in an intercultural setting. Borrowing Foucault’s ‘ethic of discomfort’, which emphasizes the proactive and transformative potential of discomfort in education, the paper extends existing scholarship in teaching and learning around study abroad and social justice by focusing on ethically complex situations in the field. The findings reveal that while preparation for unprecedented and unforeseeable scenarios during an international field course was challenging for faculty, exposing students to the realities of migration ultimately facilitated learning.
“…Con base en este proceso internacional, en el marco del inicio del nuevo gobierno federal de México (2018-2024) y el arribo de flujos masivos de migrantes y refugiados provenientes de Centroamérica, las autoridades mexicanas anunciaron en 2018 un cambio de paradigma en la gestión de los flujos migratorios, que contempla un enfoque de derechos en sus acciones para atender el fenómeno en el país (Segob, 2019). De manera paralela, ante la persistencia y magnitud de los flujos y la presión estadounidense, las prácticas del gobierno mexicano en torno a la migración han distado mucho de ser congruentes con su discurso humanista, e incluso han sido plenamente identificadas como restrictivas (Wiesner y Basok, 2020), lo cual ha incrementado la vulnerabilidad de las personas migrantes.…”
Resumen Desde 2010, México se ha venido convirtiendo en un país de tránsito y destino de población extranjera para personas de Centroamérica, el Caribe, Sudamérica y otras regiones del mundo (Asia y África). Paralelamente, en el escenario internacional han surgido una serie de procesos que han dado pie al Pacto Mundial de Migración y el Pacto para los Refugiados, que contienen disposiciones que buscan orientar y motivar respuestas aparentemente más idóneas a los países involucrados en escenarios de alta movilidad migratoria. Dichos componentes se han vuelto parte importante del discurso de la actual administración pública federal mexicana (2018-2024) sobre la atención a los flujos migratorios y su gestión. Sin embargo, las respuestas dadas y amparadas en dichos principios han propiciado un contrasentido en su intervención
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