Objective:

To understand the migratory process of Central American transgender women in Tapachula, Chiapas (Mexico), analyzing these displacements from body, space-territory, and transborder categories.

Methodology:

Qualitative investigation with a hermeneutic focus, which through in-depth interviews reconstructs the life stories of the collaborators.

Results:

The migratory processes of these women are linked to situations of forced displacement provoked by marginalization and precariousness, but mainly due to violence linked with power relations in terms of gender responding to and bodily transformation procedures.

Conclusion:

The region in transit presented here is made up of both migration and the bodily experiences of these women. It is necessary to problematize the territory and the spaces, to elaborate an analysis of the process that people live in the local contexts impregnated by situations of the globalized world which allows knowing the experience lived by those who coexist in those territories.

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