Abstract

ALQUISIRAS TERRONES, Luisa  and  ZAPATA ABURTO, Héctor. Microtheodyses and processes of subjectivation: Central American migrants mutilated in their transit through Mexico. Estud. front [online]. 2022, vol.23, e108.  Epub Nov 22, 2022. ISSN 2395-9134.  https://doi.org/10.21670/ref.2224108.

We analyze the experiences of suffering of Central American migrants who suffer mutilations as a consequence of events that occurred in their displacement through Mexican territory using freight trains, destined for the transfer of goods, as a means of transport. Method that has been used clandestinely by irregular migration to reach the border with the United States. The empirical material is the product of a multi-sited qualitative research with an ethnographic approach, during 2016 to 2020, where 12 cases of mutilated migrants were reconstructed through in-depth interviews and participant observations. We reflected on the ways they found to reconfigure their subjectivity since the physical injuries exposed them to death and interrupted their migratory trajectories, sometimes permanently. We will focus on the role that the sacred, as a dimension of meaning that helped to understand the event suffered, played in order to resume their lives.

Keywords : migration; suffering; mutilations; subjectivity; sacred.