Migratory flows in the Mexico-United States Corridor: Conjunctures and challenges in the Lopez Obrador and Trump era

Abstract

Throughout this work we have tried to analyze the migration phenomenon from the point of view of the actions of the administrations of Lopez Obrador and Trump. A comparison between two presidents who have recently come to the obligatory management of a complex and delicate reality. By confronting and contrasting migration definitions and the actions taken by both administrations to a constantly increasing situation, this text intends to study the migratory visions in two countries whose social, political and geographic contexts, define two different situations: the transit and border crossing territory (in Mexico's case) and of desired opportunities in the U.S. case.