Rethinking Transit Migration [electronic resource] : Precarity, Mobility, and Self-Making in Mexico /
Basok, Tanya.author.
Bélanger, Danièle.author.
Rojas Wiesner, Martha Luz.author.
Candiz, Guillermo.author.
Questioning the notion of transit migration, the book examines factors that shape Central American migrants' mobility and immobility in the transnational space, comprised on Central American countries, Mexico, and the US.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover ; Half-Title  ; Title ; Copyrights ; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 From Transit to Mobility:Characteristics and Concepts; 2 The Context of Precarity: Actors and Spaces; 3 Trajectories of Precarity and Mobility: Places and Actors; 4 Techniques of the Self in the Face of Precarity; 5 Towards Dignity and Security; Appendix: The List of Migrants Interviewed in This Study, by Place of Origin, Age, and Gender; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Questioning the notion of transit migration, the book examines factors that shape Central American migrants' mobility and immobility in the transnational space, comprised on Central American countries, Mexico, and the US.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Economic development.
Emigration and immigration.
Human geography.
Latin American Culture.
Development Studies.
Migration.
Human Geography.