Abstract

INOCENTE ESCAMILLA, Yuri Arón. The Politic Uses of Suffering on the Via Crucis of the Migrant, Ixtepec, Oaxaca. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.157, pp.33-52. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v40i57.339.

While observing the performance of the Vía Crucis of the migrant in Ixtepec, Oaxaca, in 2016, I realized that it provided a sociopolitical and heuristic framework for exploring the political uses of suffering. This specific form of suffering is perpetrated by the social and institutional forces that inflict violence on migrants. Following Didier Fassin’s lead, I analyze how the violated body is exposed in the Vía Crucis of the migrant as a way to reclaim migrants’ political rights. During the Vía Crucis of the migrant, the different kinds of violence that Central Americans migrants suffer are represented narratively in order to make visible their personal histories, their problems and the violence they confront during their sojourn. The objective of this narrative representation is to gain recognition of their rights.

Keywords : Politic uses of suffering; migrant’s Vía Crucis; narratives of violence; framing; representation.

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