Reconfigured state forms: the intervention to migrant populations in irregular transit through Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico

Abstract

Neoliberalism has forced to rethink the state. This is an «expanded State», alluding to the dispersion of State functions through different actors —supranational bodies, non-governmental organizations, transnational corporations and even criminal gangs and groups— that build, hold, exercise and disseminate power throughout society and thus in migration processes. In this work, it is intended to show the reconfigurations of the State, typical of neoliberalism, in the framework of irregularized migrations that pass through Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico. Not only is it a view of intervention to the migrant population in transit through state public institutions and policies, but it is also clear that other actors deploy practices that express State effects as reconfigured forms of neoliberalism.