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Forced Disappearance is a more frequent reality in our society: the figures indicate that in Mexico there are 91,500 missing persons as of September 2021. Considering the mechanisms that are necessary for the care of those family members who are looking for their loved one should be a priority for the disciplines of mental health, as they are affected physically and psychologically. The objective of the study was: to carry out an analysis of the psychosocial impact based on the emotions, thoughts, coping and social support in the mothers of the disappeared and their contribution in the search process. Ten mothers of the disappeared from Coahuila, Mexico participated. The methodology was qualitative, the data collection technique was a semi-structured interview, and the resulting data were subjected to a discourse analysis. Results: the emotions of the participants at the beginning of the search process are very specific, then they diversify and multiply, become more intense and directly affect said process. The thoughts are mainly focused on evasions and denial in the face of the disappearance events; coping directly affects your daily life, your habits and customs. Social support focuses on their families and associations that assist them to carry out the search. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is used to talk about migrants that cross the border, also for citizens that go missing, for those who were murdered during the Spanish civil war and the following dictatorship, it is also the name used to call those erased of the registers in Dominican Republic or Mexico, and sometimes it is how people refer to uncontacted tribes of the Amazonian... The name for those and many others is disappeared. None of those situations correspond, nevertheless, to what the law qualifies as "enforced disappearance". This Special Topic considers the uses of the category disappearance looking mostly into the social, rather than the savantes, uses. The five articles gathered in this Special Topic show how the category disappearance is exceeded and its potentiality as a tool to analyze subjects expelled, pariahs, the precarious, the vulnerable, abandoned lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in 2014 breathed life into a broad social movement. What occurred this time to generate a broad mobilization of citizens? To answer this question, I believe we need to understand why and how Mexican society has framed the Ayotzinapa events. My starting hypothesis is that the Ayotzinapa events have produced a social process of collective trauma, and I will support this with Jeffrey Alexander's proposal of cultural trauma, rarely used when analyzing collective action. The analysis is based on ethnographic work carried out over one year (September 2014-2015) during the different demonstrations to show solidarity with the parents of the disappeared students, which were held in Mexico City, and 70 interviews held at the national demonstration on 26th September 2015 to commemorate a year since the 43 rural teachers' college students went missing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On 26 September 2014, Mexican police forces in Iguala, Guerrero, attacked and abducted four dozen students known asnormalistas(student teachers); some were killed on the spot and the rest were never seen again. Within and beyond Mexico, rights activists immediately raised the alarm that thenormalistashad joined the country's growing population of “the disappeared,” now numbering more than 28,000 over the last decade. In this article, I draw from a growing scholarship within and beyond critical geography that explores forced disappearance as a set of governing practices that shed insight into contemporary democracies and into struggles for constructing more just worlds. Specifically, I explore how an activist representation of Mexico'snormalistasas “missing students” opens up new political possibilities and spatial strategies for fighting state terror and expanding the Mexican public within a repressive neoliberal and global order. I argue that this activism brings to life a counterpublic as protestors declare that if disappearance is &#x201c.compatible” with democracy, as it appears to be within Mexico, then disappeared subjects demand new spaces of political action. They demand a countertopography where the disappeared citizens of Mexico make their voices heard. Activists demonstrate such connections as they compose countertopographies for counterpublics across the Americas landscape of mass graves, prisons, and draconian political economies, mostly constructed in the name of democracy and on behalf of securing citizens. Understanding how Mexico's activists confront the intransigent problems of state terror, spanning from dictatorships to democracies, offers vital insights for struggles against policies for detaining and disappearing peoples there and elsewhere in these neoliberal times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forensic anthropologists seek to decipher traces of anonymous dead, to restitute identities of human remains and to provide their families with the possibility to conclude mourning and even of justice. The article explores the contributions and meanings of forensic anthropology as state-independent practice beyond a mereley criminalistic approach, as it was conceptualized by the Argentine pioneers after the last dictatorship in this nation. I conceive this practice as a sort of arqueol - ogy of contemporary terror that seeks to confront a specific violence as the forced disappearance of persons and the deshumanization of their dead bodies. The article proposes reading forensic anthropology as a 'situated cience', with its complexities and ambigueties, that operates between nameless bones (the human remains) and names without bodies (the so-called disappeared) in settings of violent pasts such as Argentina or Guatemala, and especially in Mexico, where mass graves became the new symbol of a horrified present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]