Trapped in the Entrapment: The Challenge of the Pandemic in El Refugio Casa Del Migrante Shelter

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article documents the emergent responses of shelters and migrant homes to the overwhelming impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic through participant observation at El Refugio Casa del Migrante in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco. In the different periods of the pandemic, which has still not ended, this shelter goes through different political circumstances and generates different coping strategies to mitigate its affectation, while the “entrapment in entrapment” for migrants, deportees and refugee applicants becomes generalized in the paradox of being seen between the forces that push them to mobility and those that restrain them in immobility.