Along the Central American migrant trail through Mexico, jokes and teasing offer a window into a transnational border regime defined by both migrant hospitality and xenophobic hostility. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a welding workshop in Monterrey, a city in Northern Mexico where Central Americans are increasingly waylaid on journeys to the US-Mexico border, this article examines playfully derisive and sexually charged jokes, enacted materially through everyday objects like pickup trucks, coke bottles, and welding torches, as rhetorical strategies that migrant guests rely on to negotiate the contradictions of welcome and trespass that anthropologists have largely discussed through the lens of humanitarianism. These dynamics illuminate how intersecting migrant communities reify and reconfigure ambiguities of solidarity and suspicion that surround transit migration as ethical-moral border regimes increasingly push migrant communities toward informal hospitality spaces at the margins of the West.

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¡ （开什么玩笑！）：中美洲移民小道上的幽默、敌意和热情好客

沿着穿越墨西哥的中美洲移民小径，笑话和戏弄为了解由移民热情好客和仇外敌意所定义的跨国边境政权提供了一个窗口。本文基于在墨西哥北部城市蒙特雷（Monterrey）的一个焊接车间进行的民族志田野调查，中美洲人在前往美墨边境的旅途中越来越多地受到阻碍，本文研究了通过皮卡车等日常物品实质上演的诙谐嘲讽和色情笑话，可乐瓶和焊炬，作为移民客人用来协商欢迎和侵入的矛盾的修辞策略，人类学家在很大程度上通过人道主义的视角进行了讨论。