Central Americans in transit through Mexico within the framework of the Comprehensive Plan for the Southern Border: experiences halfway there

Abstract

The fragility, precariousness, uncertainty, and violence that accompany the various experiences of mobility of Central Americans who move around Mexico have been produced, at least partially, by the implementation of containment mechanisms such as the Comprehensive Plan for the Southern Border, implemented from 2014. It will be through the brief review of the use of the category of transit that, in part,  the existence of such a restrictive device will be explained, which are aimed at stopping this migration. To this end will be used the experience of an accompanied minor and a group of twelve moving around Mexico in the period 2013-2015, who lived the effects of the plan in «their own flesh».