This text focuses on the subjective constructions that people (transmigrants) develop in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas on their way to the United States. A qualitative content analysis is carried out based on in-depth semi-structured interviews to understand the ways in which individuals relate to social structures and try to subvert or transform them through strategies that allow them to cope with the waiting situation. Standby. Immobility within human mobility and how new subjectivities are woven into it represents the trait of originality of this article. It is concluded that the structural marginalization to which transmigrants are endured can be overcome through actions that, despite their innocuous appearance, have considerable symbolic potential to destabilize hegemonic discourses that strengthen a separation between ways of existing, conceptions and ways of proceeding in the world.
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