More than an Instinct an Institution: Migration and its Socialization by Central- American and Mexican Minors

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the process through which socialization of Migration as a social institution, experienced by Central-American and Mexican minors, develop into one of the prime causes of these group's migratory processes mainly headed to North America. To achieve it, this research holds an interdisciplinary approach and uses mixed methods, whose results are presented here in two core sections that comprise, firstly, an interpretation of Migration through Berger and Luckmann's categories of socialization and institutionalization; and, secondly, the particularities that such processes acquire when their subjects are children coming from Mexico and Central America. Accordingly, it is concluded that socialization of the migratory institution starred by these infants, due to its type (both secondary and primary) and as a result of experiencing it in different space-time (origin, transit, and destination), intertwines strongly with other factors to produce and reproduce the social institution named Migration.