ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the dimensions of the incest phenomenon in contemporary Mexican society from a feminist sociological perspective. It presents the author's interviews with 35 specialists of sexual violence such as professionals in the areas of law, psychotherapy, psychology, social work, priests interested in the topics, and activists from programs aimed at preventing violence against children and women. The chapter also presents the concept of "transnational incest" to identify and examine the social processes through which international migration and sexual violence interact with each other within the context of the family. Transnational incest illustrates the mechanisms through which the different forms of sexual violence within Mexican families (identified here with the concept of "incest") are organized within the confines of and across territorial borders, and can be articulated, reproduced and reinvented as part of the migration processes, which can go in different directions, in this case between Mexico and the neighboring northern country.
