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This paper identifies the Trump administration's violent practices toward Central American and Mexican asylum-seeking families as a defensive response to the legal framework that grants them this protection tool in their relationship with the State. Through in-depth interviews and participant observation with migrant families in Tijuana during 2017-2020, it is concluded that the various measures implemented sought to limit asylum as a right and to configure an illegal subject based on suspicion, criminalization, and trauma. In this way, it was sought to reverse the character of legality that protects asylum seekers and rebuild a dominant vertical relationship of racialized subjection. The analysis seeks to contribute to migration studies by understanding the tension between the legality of asylum and the Trump administration's actions to disrupt this framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the opposing positions on abortion in Mexico, using the content analysis of texts and pronouncements recently published and issued by domestic collective actors and their allies or international institutes. From the study of the differences of significance of abortion in rivaled speeches in Mexico today, not only does this article seek to identify the distinguishing discursive logic that supports them, but also put this dispute in the context of the current era of transition between two capitalist structural-technological models: industrial modernity and post-industrialism, and so argue that abortion is emblematic of a larger contemporary race for the nature of the state and its relationship with religion. As such, it represents a clash over the societal project itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the discursive dispute for the cultural meaning of sexuality, reproduction, and the family in Mexico. This dispute is being played out today around the issue of same sex marriage and adoption rights, which were legalized in Mexico City, secured by the Supreme Court, and vehemently opposed by the Catholic Church and other conservative forces. The article is an initial attempt to identify conceptual and contextual factors that facilitate an understanding these discursive differences. Our analysis places the constitution and mobilization of collective actors within the broader framework of the tension between cosmopolitan and parochial visions of society, which ultimately remits to the relationship between Church and State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text explores the logic and contents of two transnational discourses that dispute cultural meaning over the beginning of human life and personhood, the implications of reproduction, and the limits of women's rights. I analyzes the evolution and confrontation of actors who circulate theses respective discourses within the specific context of Baja California, México. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]