Abstract

PECKER MADEO, Carolina. Forced Displacement: from Banavil, Tenejapa to San Cristobal de Las Casas. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2019, vol.14, e425.  Epub Aug 07, 2020. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2019.v14.425.

Using an ethnographic approach, in this article I present a particular case of forced mobility in the Highlands of Chiapas: the displacement of a group of Tseltal indigenous people from their community in Banavil, in the Tenejapa municipality to the city of San Cristobal de Las Casas caused by political violence. Based on field work carried out between 2015 and 2018 in this city, I propose to analyze forced displacement as a process of deterritorialization / precarious territorialization whose properties I characterize in relation to the points of view of the displaced themselves, regarding both the territories and the experience of violence, as well as their self-ascriptions, their objectives, and their relation to organizations within the city.

Keywords : deterritorialization; precarious territorialization; political violence.