Abstract
This chapter describes the predicament of transit migrants. Focusing on conditions in Mexico, the chapter draws attention to an emerging trend in global migration, namely, the entrenchment of permanent temporality due to the measures implemented by receiving states aimed at controlling and deterring irregular migration. Based on interviews conducted between 2012 and 2015 across Mexico with Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran migrants and with representatives of civil society organizations, the chapter posits that temporary permanence is becoming a “new normal” and illustrates how the conditions of many migrants traversing Mexico are in line with this trend. The chapter also discusses how the discursive practices of the Mexican government, which refers to population stuck in Mexico as transit migrants, have deliberately sought to render the plight of these migrants invisible. The chapter underlines the need to deploy a more comprehensive approach and new vocabularies that better capture the realities of all precarious migrants in Mexico and beyond.
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