Exclusion, vulnerability and borders: transit migration in the City of Culiacan, Sinaloa, in the context of COVID-19

Abstract

The COVID 19 health crisis has impacted the migrant population gravely, expelling them from their destination countries due to deportation or border closure policies, which has led to them being trapped in transit countries or points, whose conditions of vulnerability have placed them at risk, due to the closure of support centers and the lack of health care, food and housing, as is the case for Mexico. This investigation aims to analyze the impact of mobility in this context, the role of borders and migration policies, not only under the conditions and challenges migrants face, but also to understand them as a result of a discourse that obeys an ethnocentric vision of exclusion and racism, which has been deepened and legitimized under the context of the pandemic.