ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how central American migrants in transit through Mexico in recent years have deployed new ways of dealing with the violence of border controls in the US border regime. It analyzes the relationship between violence and the apparatuses of immigration control, and the processes of capital accumulation in the United States entailing the exploitation of resources and labour in Mexico and central America, from where migrants have made a massive flight since the mid-1980s. It describes the caravans of Central American migrants that acquired media notoriety in 2018 as political embodiments in motion, which question the different confinement apparatuses that they have faced in recent years as the experience of transiting has become increasingly illegalized and criminalized. The focus of the chapter is analytical and ethnographic, showing how the migrant caravans question and challenge human rights and humanist discourses and oppose the violence of the US border regime's governance of migration.
