La muerte tiene permiso. Ensayo sobre la necropolítica hacia la migración de tránsito por México

Abstract

This article poses and analyzes the contemporary policy of containment of transit migration, by the Mexican State, as a necropolitics (Mbembe, 2011 [2006]). That is, the self-assignment by government personnel of the decision, and the consequent treatment, of which population sectors can live and persist, and which can be separated, detained, eliminated. Consistent with the analysis by Mbembe (2011 [2006]) and Foucault (2006 [1978]), the article argues that necropolitics of migration is part of a broader necropower of segregation, exclusion, and exploitation of the migrant population. Likewise, it is argued that irregularization and the deployment of borders are some of the main mechanisms that enable an exclusive treatment of migrants. Finally, within the framework of necropolitics, containment policies are analyzed in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic.