Abstract

ROSALES CERVANTES, Guillermo. Waiting Situation, Bureaucracy and Access to Legal Protection: The Case of Migrants through the Southern Border of Mexico. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2023, vol.18, e105.  Epub Apr 14, 2023. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2023.v18.658.

In Mexico, there are increasing obstacles for migrants to access justice and the protection of their rights. These obstacles are the result of an interweaving of global, regional, and local provisions, as well as a waiting time in which bureaucratic practices and disciplinary mechanisms are expressed. This paper seeks to describe how the intersection of these elements produces an oscillating conception of justice, authority, and patience, which does not stop people from seeking legal protection and simultaneously places tension on the concept of illegality that is constructed around their immigration status and their actions. The results demonstrate that the right to withdraw is one way of confronting the authorities and expressing agency. This resource enables the construction of a political foundation that makes it possible to undermine the State’s logic of exteriority and simultaneously makes visible the need to establish broad solidarity-based relationships in order to achieve objectives.

Keywords : justice; bureaucratic practices; human mobility; legal protection; patience.

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