Security and Sexuality Devices in Mexico’s South Border: Biopolitics Face to Central American Trans-gender Women

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n33.06

Ernesto Antonio Zarco Ortiz
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6312-6493
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, México
zarcortiz@gmail.com

Karla Jeanette Chacón Reynosa
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5591-9773
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, México
karlachaconreynosa@gmail.com

Abstract:

This paper uncovers trans-border migrating devices at play in the displacement of Central American trans-gender women as they pass through Mexico’s south border: Tapachula, Chiapas. Those displacements viewed from the approach of a lived experience reveal distinction, normalization, and exclusion techniques on transgender bodies, which are applied through security devices (passports, transit permits, visas, protection and refugee status), and sexuality, regulated by nation-States. This migrating regulation of the transborder industrial complex operates on diverse sex-gender bodies, illegally crossing territorial and bodily borders, always exposed to biopolitical control approaches.

Keywords: Transgender, migration, transborder, biopolitics, body.