ABSTRACT

In this article, I examine the psychosocial and phenomenological implications for the lived experiences of collective mobility among Central American asylum seekers and irregular migrants bound for the United States. I argue that attentiveness to migrants’ embodied practices and encounters with the material world engender novel insight into the generative and productive potential of collective journeying. I focus on migrant caravans through Mexico that have surged in recent years in response to escalating rates of gang violence, extreme poverty, and environmental devastation in Central American countries. The analysis reveals that the transformative power of the caravan lies in its capacity to disrupt patterns of collective trauma by bearing witness to the atrocities migrants have suffered and giving meaning to their collective struggle. Close examination of how these processes unfold en route may help explain how and why collective mobility promotes resilience among participants and their ability to resist the effects of long-term collective trauma.

 抽象的

在本文中，我研究了中美洲寻求庇护者和前往美国的非正常移民的集体流动生活经历的社会心理和现象学影响。我认为，对移民的具体实践和与物质世界的接触的关注可以产生对集体旅行的生成和生产潜力的新见解。我重点关注近年来因中美洲国家帮派暴力、极端贫困和环境破坏不断升级而激增的穿越墨西哥的移民大篷车。分析表明，大篷车的变革力量在于它能够通过见证移民所遭受的暴行并赋予他们的集体斗争意义来打破集体创伤的模式。仔细研究这些过程如何在途中展开可能有助于解释集体流动性如何以及为何能够提高参与者的复原力以及他们抵抗长期集体创伤影响的能力。