An approach to corporal expressiveness among Mexican migrant agricultural laborers

Abstract

The study of the human body has been approached in distinct historical and cultural contexts and generated a broad diversity of theoretical contributions from the perspective of the different scientific disciplines that problematize it. Despite these advances, however, critics of this field still posit the need to articulate its understanding through multidimensional, perspectives and holistic, unfragmented studies. The phenomenology of corporality in populations of migrant agricultural laborers in Mexico reveals the absence of theorizing. While the article does not pretend to offer an exhaustive review of this topic, it does explore the body-wear-mistreatment relationship in the context of what occurs in the different spatialities that emerge in neoliberal agricultural labor markets that permanently subject the wills of actors. We posit that the body inscribed along the trail of migratory trajectories constitutes an important analytical key for typifying this sector

Keywords

• Cuerpo, gestualidad, habitáculo, jornaleros migrantes, invisibilidad humana.