From Transit to Settlement. A Mexican Border Town's Transition from a Transit Space to a Waiting Territory

Isabel Gil-Everaert — 2020-03-03T06:00:00Z

Tanapan, a border town in southern Mexico has long been a point of passage for Central American migrants bound for the United States. Since 2014, new restrictions have gradually changed it into a waiting territory. How was it transformed into a new involuntary destination?
In early July 2016, Lucy invited me for lunch at her house. I had met her the previous summer, while she was staying at La Palma, a migrant shelter located in Tanapan, a small town in southern Mexico where I conducted

- From the Field / Mexico, borders, United States, migrants, migration, shelter, waiting, transit space, territory, Guatemala

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From Transit to Settlement. A Mexican Border Town's Transition from a Transit Space to a Waiting Territory