ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT: PHD THESIS

The phenomenology of migration experience: The experiences of migration experiences of deported Mexican male migrants and their implication in the social construction of reality in the 21st century - cases from Tijuana

This research proposes to understand how migrants articulate their migrancy within themselves and among themselves. Migrant Houses in Tijuana, Mexico, allow for the study of migrants in a structured and “closed” environment where the experience of migration prevails. How, then, do migrants structure and articulate their migrancy within and among themselves? By concerting the interplay and interaction of the penetration of the digital sphere to the migrant experience, and considering the experience of adult, male, Mexican and undocumented migrants it is the hope of this research to be able to expand the “forms” of understanding the migratory  experience. By applying an intersectionality perspective from critical feminist theory (McCall, 2005), within a subaltern and postcolonial framework (Mignolo, 2012), it is hoped that the analytical framework here provided can recapture and reembody the adult, male, Mexican, undocumented migrant, with agency, and allow for the analytical documentation and observation of the means and modes of how migrancy circulates is shaped by migrants.