TY - THES ID - 135905165 TI - State Violence and Criminal Bodies : The experiences of Central Americans Asylum Seekers in Mexico AU - Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius AU - Fadil Nadia. AU - K.U. Leuven. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen. Master Erasmus Mundus Intercultural Mediation PY - 2014 PB - Leuven : K.U. Leuven. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135905165 AB - This study examines Central Americans experience of violence in Mexico. In the context of forced migration, the Central America North Triangle (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) has emerged with high number of asylum seekers in all neighboring countries. Furthermore, this region has been declared as the most dangerous in the world, which is often linked to gangs’ violence. Thus, among such discourses and experience of violence, people have fled in search for protection in different countries. In this scenario, Mexico has emerged as a country of destination and transit for those people. Marked by different migratory flow, the country has been challenged to promote decent conditions for migrant and refugee protection. However, it has been observed the criminalization of migration and emergence of non-state actors that have taken advantage of this structure to make those precarious live a form of profit.In attempting to understand the challenges and State responsibility in the production of violence against asylum seekers, this study seek to establish a meeting point between their migratory experience and States protection discourses. In this purpose, it was conducted an ethnographic study focus on asylum seekers whole journey around different status, dispositive and threats. Finally, it is considered the critical state's role in the production of violence and lack of asylum seekers protection. Thus, this research considers that the production of structural violence against asylum seekers in Mexico has not only jeopardized asylum seekers protection, but also provided new forms of precarity and violence. ER -