Abstract

MONTE MADRIGAL, Juan Antonio del. Breakable Lives in the Vortex of Precariousness: Expulsion Policies, Exclusionary Processes, and Street Life in Tijuana, Mexico. Norteamérica [online]. 2021, vol.16, n.2, pp.183-207.  Epub Apr 04, 2022. ISSN 2448-7228.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2021.2.433.

This article presents an analysis of the process of becoming precarious for people with a past of deportation and who currently live on the streets of the border city of Tijuana. This is framed in a model of analysis called the “vortex of precariousness,” which functions to investigate the way these people’s lives have increasingly deteriorated due to factors involving processes, relationships, practices, and subjectivity. The author looks more deeply into the historical-process-related dimension of this form of analysis, which studies policies of expulsion and exclusion, deploying a multifactorial perspective to understand the different historical-social elements that come together so that specific people end up living on the streets of that city.

Keywords : northern border; deportation; street life; precariousness.

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