Victimization, Offending and Resistance in Mexico: Toward Critical Discourse and Grounded Methodologies in Organized Crime Research

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1. Migrant smuggling refers to the facilitation of a person’s entry into a country other than his or her own uninspected; human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

2. See for example the two volumes from Mexico’s National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) on the kidnapping of migrants in 2009 (www.cndh.org.mx/sites/all/doc/Informes/Especiales/2009_migra.pdf) and 2011 (https://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/all/doc/Informes/Especiales/2011_secmigrantes.pdf).

3. Today, Mexico apprehends and deports more Central American migrants than the U.S. “In the first seven months of the year, more than 123,00 migrants were detained – 69 percent higher than those in the same period last year. Almost 94.000 have been repatriated, 54 percent more than those returned to their countries during the same period in 2018.” See Excelsior, 2019. “Aumenta el número de migrantes detenidos en México en 2019.” Diario Excelsior, 9 August 2019. Available from: https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/aumenta-numero-de-migrantes-detenidos-en-mexico-en-2019/1328947.

4. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” Statements from then candidate to the US Presidency Donald T. Trump. Washington Post (2015). Full text: Donald Trump announces a presidential bid. Washington Post, 16 July 2015. Available from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/16/full-text-donald-trump-announces-a-presidential-bid/.