Resumen

RIVAS CASTILLO, Jaime. ¿Víctimas nada más?: migrantes centroamericanos en el Soconusco, Chiapas. Nueva antropol [online]. 2011, vol.24, n.74, pp.9-38. ISSN 0185-0636.

In studies on Central American migration to and through Mexico - as a transit and destination country for immigrants from Central America - analyses have centered largely on migrants' risks and vulnerability, but insufficient attention has been paid to empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives which suggest that those migrants are more than just victims of violations of their human rights or of accidents. In this article, the author maintains that it is necessary to delve into the concepts of risk and vulnerability, as well as to accompany that analysis with others breaking away from mindsets entailing victimization and, rather, opening up the possibility of not considering migrants as mere passive subjects, but as active participants in their migratory processes who receive, interpret, and exchange information, and design strategies in their relationships with the other actors involved, as well as with institutions and organizations. This second kind of vision is more in keeping with the main theoretical postulates of a perspective centered on social actors and on evidence gathered from ethnographic studies done in certain places within the Soconusco region of the state of Chiapas.

Palabras llave : Soconusco; Chiapas; Central America; migratory flows; Central American migration; undocumented migration; risk; vulnerability; social actors.

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