Gender mobility: survival plays and performing Central American migration in passage

Noelle K. Brigden

Mobilities, 2018, vol. 13, issue 1, 111-125

Abstract: Bandits, corrupt officials, travel companions and smugglers rape Central American migrants during their clandestine journey across Mexico. However, migrants do not passively accept this violence; they devise performances of gender to arrive at their destination. Based on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork from El Salvador through Mexico to the United States, this article examines how men and women improvise new understandings of masculinity and femininity as they travel the migrant trail. In the transient social field of the transnational migration route, migrant narratives of the journey are ‘survival plays’ that re-imagine gender.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292056

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