Coser mis labios para alzar la voz: el caso de mujeres centroamericanas acusadas de trata de personas en Tapachula, Chiapas

Abstract

In gender and migration studies, not to much has been written about Central America women in jail facing people’s smuggling charges. Therefore in this paper. i propose to analyze some cases of women servingn jail time in the CERESO Femenil number 4 in Tapachula, Chiapas a mexican n border city. In their cases it is not clear under what circunstances their actions were defined as human smuggling by mexican law. Then, to know their own experience could help to understand this complex social phenomenom. As an effort to ear their voices, open and semi structured interviews were applied, as weell as life histories, were used as parto of the metodologyin this paper.