Humanitarian Borders and Asylum in Mexico: Using Soft Power to Control Mobility

What is it about?

This article analyses the functioning of the humanitarian border in central Mexico. Based on ethnographic research in Puebla between 2019 and 2022, we analyse how this state has been incorporated into the international humanitarian circuit by being made responsible for handling asylum seekers and refugees who have been relocated from the south of the country. This led to the emergency of a "soft" humanitarian border, which we analyze in this article.

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