Abstract

DONCEL DE LA COLINA, Juan Antonio  and  ROMAN-FAJARDO, Eloísa. Central American Migrant Women Communicative Agency in their Transit through Mexican Territory. Migr. Inter [online]. 2025, vol.16, e2881.  Epub Apr 04, 2025. ISSN 2594-0279.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.2881.

From a qualitative approach, the ways in which migrant women from the northernmost countries of Central America exercise their communicative agency during their journey through Mexican territory are characterized. Using in-depth interviews and observations in migrant shelters, it is documented how the communicative action of the migrant women possess an effective resistance to a hostile structural framework, highlighting their capacity to endure their systematic vulnerabilities, moving from subjection to agency. The special attention paid to the key role that communicative action plays during the migration process, and with the problematization posed by the novel concept of “communicative agency,” enriches the field of study focused on female migration, the sense, and meanings that these women give to their experience. The findings invite comparison with similar realities in different contexts.

Keywords : 1. communicative agency; 2. female migrant subject; 3. social networks; 4. Central America; 5. Mexico.

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