Abstract

PECKER MADEO, Carolina. Between Chenalhó y Chalchihuitán: forced (im)mobility and border conflict. Entrediversidades rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2020, vol.7, n.2, pp.280-307.  Epub Feb 26, 2024. ISSN 2007-7610.  https://doi.org/10.31644/ed.v7.n2.2020.a10.

The article aims to explain the forced displacement that mobilized more than 5000 indigenous people in November 2017 in the Highlands of Chiapas, due to border conflicts between the indigenous, tsotsil speaking, municipalities of Chenalhó and Chalchihuitán. I present its formal background using information provided by state documents and press sources, as well as characterize the situation based on what was collected in mappings and interviews conducted in collaboration with the indigenous translator of Doctors Without Borders in the conflict zone and with staff of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center in January and February 2018. The results show that borderline dialing practices display their conflict both in the formal legal field as in the materiality of the territory. In turn, interviews and mappings allow characterization of forced (im)mobility and account for how they resulted in a situation of precarious (de)territorialization and a humanitarian crisis.

Keywords : border conflict; forced displacement; indigenous municipalities; precarious (de)territorialization.

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