From internally displaced persons to asylum seekers. The complexity of the phenomenon of violent migration in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the transitability experienced by forced migrants, through migratory categories such as "internally forcibly displaced" or "applicants for international protection" through refuge, asylum or forced return. For this purpose, the information from the Survey of Displaced Mexicans Seeking Asylum (ENMEDESA), conducted in 2019 in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, is used as a case study, from whose analysis it is concluded that the current contexts of forced mobility, derived from violence, surpass the migratory categories, insufficient to explain and attend to this phenomenon, evidencing its complexity and multidimensionality, where the subjects acquire migratory profiles with a high degree of transitability which blurs the responsibility of States to attend to, protect and guarantee the safety of forced migrants.

Keywords: Forced migration, Forced internal displacement, Asylum, Violence, Ciudad Juárez

https://doi.org/10.25009/clivajesrcs.i15.2693
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