Abstract

CASTILLO RAMIREZ, Guillermo. Immigration Containment on Mexico’s Northern Border. Detentions and Deportations of Central Americans during the Pandemic. Norteamérica [online]. 2023, vol.18, n.2, pp.167-184.  Epub Dec 02, 2024. ISSN 2448-7228.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2023.2.610.

Central Americans with irregular migratory status in transit through Mexico heading toward the United States experience immigration containment by both the U.S. and Mexican governments. This article uses official and pro-migrant organization sources to argue that during the 2020-2021 SARS-CoV2 pandemic, and in the context of Mexico’s northern border, both spatial and socio-demographic changes took place in the processes of detention and deportation of Central American migrants. The author maintains that, beyond the simple exercise of Mexican immigration law, detentions and deportations are a central part of the national and regional migratory containment strategies in the framework of the U.S. anti-immigrant agenda. The article’s contribution is to show that the northern border, as a territory that concentrates detentions and deportations, acts as a national regional space to de-articulate Central American migration.

Keywords : migration; borders; deportations; detentions; immigration containment.

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