Resumen

GONZALEZ PLACENCIA, Luis  y  DIAZ DE LEON FERNANDEZ DE CASTRO, Laura. Securitization, Selection and Exclusion: The Role of the Mexican Immigration Bill of 2011 as a “Legal Wall” against Migration from México and Central America. Entrediversidades rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2021, vol.8, n.2, pp.167-190.  Epub 26-Feb-2024. ISSN 2007-7610.  https://doi.org/10.31644/ed.v8.n2.2021.a08.

The securitization of Mexican immigration policy has been analyzed as an effect of the hardening of policies for internal security that the United States government implemented after the attacks of September 11, 2001. In the light of a critical analysis that combines the perspectives of securitization as the “government of migration” and as an exception production for the “exclusion of the migrant”, this article problematizes this position and proposes to understand the securitization process as a mechanism in which “selection” and “exclusion” operate in a complementary way to guarantee the presence of undocumented labor in the central economies and at the same time, to serve the aim of the preventive lockdown of the global North. For these purposes, we analyze the role of the constitutional human rights framework of migration in Mexico as a function of human mobility administration and the context of violence that exists in the Mexican national territory as the place in which the exception is updated.

Palabras llave : secondary legislation on migration in Mexico; selective migration processes; security management of migration; spaces of exceptionality of the human rights of migrants.