PhD researcher Rosario Rizzo Lara has published an article in the Journal of Borderland Studies, entitled “Managing Irregularized Migration in Mexico: Rhetoric of a Renewed Approach”.
The paper examines five actions the ongoing Mexican administration has performed to manage irregularized migration and evaluates if the strategies correspond with the principles of the New Migration Policy that the government is implementing. To do so, she draws on secondary qualitative data, policy analysis, reports, and statistical data. Findings show that the Mexican government has used new and long-standing bordering practices to contain irregularized migration, contrasting with the discourse of respect to migrants’ human rights. According to her research, the actions performed have gone from “permissive” to repressive as the pressure from the US and the influx of migrants increased.
The article is open access and can be read in full here.