Teenage migrant women: stories of Mexican minors repatriated from United States

Abstract

Undocumented migration of Mexican minors to the United States is a phenomenon that has already deserved a good amount of research, but still little is known about their migration experiences differentiated by sex. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to present and analyze the stories of two teenage migrant women: one from Chiapas and the other from Oaxaca, who were arrested by the Border Patrol while crossing the border between Mexico-United States and repatriated from Brownsville, Texas to Matamoros, Tamaulipas. It is argued that their narratives provide an insight about how some Mexican teenage migrant women live the migration process, and the usefulness of the life story as a technique to capture it.

Keywords

• méxico
• migración
• niñas
• relatos
• repatriación