Studying the field of migration of Central American women in transit through Mexico from a gender perspective.

Abstract

In the field of migration in transit through Mexico of Central American women, the capital in dispute is the body of the female migrants, which implies social, spatial and temporal transformations linked to violence that configure a habitus and a specific bodily capital with which they fight for their survival to be able to advance in their migratory trajectories. Feminist critical ethnography is a political and methodological position that aims to give voice to women’s stories. In dialogue with theoretical categories, the construction of analytical categories is proposed that allow expanding the relational analysis of gender and power within this field. The objective of this document is to show some elements that make up the field of migration in transit, such as habitus, agents and bodily capital, which are the main concepts of these social relations.