Abstract

FARFAN, Fernando; VIZCARRA, Ivonne  and  GONZALEZ, Norma. Políticas de salud: Estrategia biopolítica para controlar a los migrantes mexicanos en Estados Unidos. Migr. desarro [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.19, pp.3-32. ISSN 1870-7599.

This paper analyses health policies aimed at migrants headed for the United States. The goal is to understand how these policies respond to strategies meant to control migrants access to and stay in the country. This is approached via Michel Foucault's notion of biopower: a power that aims to subject bodies and control of populations via a number of techniques and strategies. In this sense, public health policies constitute a vehicle to controls Mexican immigrants traveling to the United States. Their modes of action and their scope are addressed; moreover, these policies are examined in the context of global mechanisms used to govern the Mexican migrant population.

Keywords : biopower; biopolitics; migration; health; government.