1st Edition
Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control Colonial legacies and the Experiences of Migrants in Mexico
Introduction 1. Migration governance, infrastructures, and agencies 2. Northern Central American migration: Colonial legacies and state policies 3. The case of casas del migrante 4. Protective missions and exclusionary practices 5. Punitive houses 6. To deter mobility or not Conclusion
Biography
Erika Herrera Rosales is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She was awarded with an Early Career Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Studies and has been appointed as an Associate Fellow. Her research focuses on global migration, bordering practices, and post/decolonial perspectives.
From the UN's global compacts to the frontline efforts of humanitarian organizations, this book paints a vivid picture of compassion and complexity, geopolitical entanglement and human emotions along migration routes in Mexico. A must-read for those seeking to understand the intricacies of contemporary global migration and the changing role of humanitarian actors.
Nando Sigona, Professor, Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham
This timely book provides insights into Central American migration to the USA that are rarely discussed: the challenges of crossing Mexico, the violence, the racism, and the precarity. This book is vital reading for scholars and migration organisers who want to explore critical humanitarian perspectives.
Mónica G Moreno Figueroa, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge
Erika Herrera Rosales work provides unprecedented insights into the workings of humanitarian spaces for people in mobility contexts in Mexico, and the ways they reproduce forms of state discipline, surveillance and control, systematically rendering suspect those who rely on their services. The book challenges the assumptions surrounding migrant shelters as benevolent, protective spaces, and raises concerns over their role amid migration enforcement in the hemisphere. An important, urgent text.
Gabriella Sanchez, Research Fellow, Georgetown University
