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Tabula Rasa

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Abstract

ORTIZ, ERNESTO ANTONIO ZARCO  and  REYNOSA, KARLA JEANETTE CHACÓN. Security and Sexuality Devices in Mexico’s South Border: Biopolitics Face to Central American Trans-gender Women. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2020, n.33, pp.137-163. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n33.06.

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.

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