15 Methods that mirror migrationEthics and entanglement en route

Noelle Brigden

DOI: 10.4324/9781003108016-17

Introduction

Why are some undocumented Central American migrants more vulnerable to violence while crossing Mexico than others? Rumors about criminal and state violence committed against migrants, as well as rumors about migration opportunity, pervade Central American hometowns, conveyed through social networks. These rumors constitute migratory routes across Mexico, but seldom provide clarity. Given the tendency of such information to flow through social networks, I initially developed research hypotheses rooted in the idea of migratory social capital (e.g., Gaytan et al. 2007; Kyle 2000; Kyle and Scarcelli 2009; Singer and Massey ...

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