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Academic publicationMigration and foreign nationals lawGlobal scholarship08 July 2026

Migration Governance in Latin America and Mexico’s Role as a Control Laboratory

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Elisa Ortega Velázquez’s article in the Mexican Law Review argues that US migration governance between 2017 and 2025 moved from coercive securitisation to a hegemonic form of control, spanning Trump’s first presidency, the Biden administration and the opening of Trump’s second presidency. It traces how this shift was sustained through externalisation, executive orders, digital infrastructures and the combination of different enforcement tools, and identifies four markers of hegemonic migration governance: normalisation, territorial expansion, convergence of control mechanisms and the downgrading of legal protections in favour of deterrence. Mexico is presented as a migration control laboratory in which militarisation, bureaucracy, euphemised control measures and organised abandonment are particularly visible.

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Elisa Ortega Velázquez

“From Securitization to Hegemony: Migration Governance in Latin America Under Trump’s Presidencies, with Mexico as a Control Laboratory”

Mexican Law Review · 2026

DOI 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2026.1.20591

Content language: Mixed source language
Type: Journal article

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Elisa Ortega Velázquez, “From Securitization to Hegemony: Migration Governance in Latin America Under Trump’s Presidencies, with Mexico as a Control Laboratory”, Mexican Law Review, 2026-07-08, 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2026.1.20591. https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2026.1.20591

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