Migrations de la violence, violence en migration. Les vulnérabilités des populations centraméricaines en mobilité vers le Nord

Abstract

Central American migratory journeys take place in risky geographical and socio-political spaces, where situations involving danger and vulnerability take many forms. Based on observation of experiences and contexts of mobility, the author examines expressions of violence as one of the motives for migration, as a constraint affecting the implementation of migration projects and finally, as an effect of migration policies of containment. He postulates that forms of violence are intertwined, often cumulative, and that their persistence constitutes a component of migration phenomena in the region today. The article aims to examine the ways in which a ‘continuum of violence’ creates marginal status and generates situations that, in turn, fuel forms of vulnerability where risks are trivialised, while the migratory presence is socially, legally and politically undervalued and rendered invisible.