ABSTRACT
Questioning the depiction of pro-migrant solidarity as unequivocal and transformative, the article draws attention to two types of ambivalences evident in the solidarity activism in Mexico. The vacillation between two different goals, that is, protecting migrants’ rights to mobile citizenship (i.e. the right to safe and secure mobility through Mexico) and the right to stay and settle in Mexico, constitutes the first type of ambivalence. We call it the mobility-immobility ambivalence. The second type of ambivalence is between the seemingly transformative discourses and actions and the de facto affirmative outcomes. We call it the transformative-affirmative ambivalence. Both ambivalences are linked to the rapidly changing geopolitical climate that has created uncertainty among Mexican solidarity activists. Based on in-depth interviews conducted in 2019 in Mexico, the article contributes to an understanding of how migrants’ citizenship rights are negotiated and claimed by solidarity activists.
