Los cuerpos desechables en las fronteras: estudios de migración forzada, las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y América Latina
Disposable bodies at the borders: a study on forced migration and the U.S.-Latin American relations

Author(s): Érica Sarmiento
Subject(s): Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Government/Political systems, Military policy, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: forced migrations; Central America; U.S. policies; disposable bodies; borders; migraciones forzadas; América Central; políticas estadounidenses; cuerpos desechables fronteras http:/orcid.org/0000-0001-6133-
Summary/Abstract: The article seeks to analyse forced migrations, rioritizing displacements from the Northern Triangleregion to Mexico and the United States, based on publications in digital media and reports from civiland governmental organizations published during Donald Trump’s administration. The sources analyseddemonstrate the extent to which governmental discourses and practices can criminalize migratoryflows and how the application of a policy of border militarization can transform the image of theimmigrant into a constant threat. In this migration tragedy, human security becomes less importantthan securitization, and the deportations and imprisonment of children stand for thousands of lives thatbecome disposable bodies at the borders.

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