Abstract

GUTIERREZ ALBERTOS, Victor Hugo. The 72 as Intercultural Trans Emancipation and Resistance Space in the Southern Border of Mexico. Península [online]. 2017, vol.12, n.2, pp.69-94. ISSN 1870-5766.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnsla.2017.06.004.

Paola is a young Honduran trans from San Pedro Sula forced into exile to Mexico because her life is in danger. Despite the existence of a large body of international law that protects her, in the migratory journey she is encountering current laws and discriminatory practices that deny her rights as a refugee.

Located in the southern Mexican border, the migrant's shelter called "72 house" is facing a humanitarian emergency, one that they manage through a process of critical interculturality. The 72 becomes a place of freedom for Paola, where she develops greater emancipation in her sex-gender dissidence, and resistance to capitalist global governance.

This article provides a current overview of the relationship between trans identities and expressions of gender and migration processes on the southern border of Mexico.

Keywords : LGBT Human Rights; migration; interculturalism; humanitarian refuge; southern border.

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