MEXICAN MIGRATORY LAWS AND THE EMERGENCY OF THE PACIFIC ROUTE AS A MIGRANT TRANSIT AREA: THEIR PASSAGE THROUGH SINALOA

Abstract

The transit migration that passes through the Mexican Pacific route is a window to see how human displacement is building globalization and viceversa, as it is a global phenomenon whose characteristic are risk and no place for human groups that do not find social and economic accomodation nowhere. Supported by socondary sources, as well as consultation of newspapers, goverment documents and oral history, this article finds that irregular transit migration crossing through Mexico are traped due to their quality as Homo Sacer, understood as a person who is out of the jurisdiction of a State. Mexican immigration laws help to keep this situation worse and worse as long as poverty is criminalized by law. But transit migrants, as subjects and actors of their destiny, defend themselves both through their word that mounted on virtual networks reaches the whole world and through the solidarity of Mexican civil society.

Keywords

• transit migration
• migration laws
• pacific route