Severine durin Franco-Mexican (Paris, 1972). She is an economist and anthropologist, professor-researcher at CIESAS-Noreste since 2003. Her main line of research focuses on the intersection between migration, gender and ethnicity. Since 2004 he has headed several research projects on indigenous people in the Monterrey metropolitan area and domestic workers in Latin America, with the support of the National Council for Science and Technology and at the request of the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples. In 2011 and 2012, he participated in the development of a legal framework on indigenous rights in Nuevo León. Since 2015, she has been investigating the relationship between public security, human rights and forced displacement. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level 2) and of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (Humanities Section).

Temáticas

Resist dehumanization. Civil society in the face of disappearances, coercion of freedom of expression and forced displacement in Mexico

  • Severine durin

Parents looking for traces of their children in vacant lots. Journalists who have nightmares in which they are executed by high-powered weapons. Young people who testify to obtain recognition of forced disappearances in Mexico before international actors. Human rights activists who keep track and record of the invisible victims of the so-called war on drug trafficking, that is, displaced people. These themes make up the four texts in this dossier, which were written by women who move between academia and activism. In them the dehumanization of discourse and militaristic actions are exposed, the meanings of those who suffer and resist such circumstances are illuminated, and the cruel way in which Mexican society has been hit by the militarization of public security is evidenced.

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Journalism under fire. Lethal Methods of Press Coercion During the Drug War

  • Severine durin

Keywords: war against drug trafficking, freedom of expression, forced migration, war journalism, displaced journalists.

WThis article analyzes the coercion exercised against the press in northeastern Mexico during the so-called war against drug trafficking, based on the experiences of 10 communicators displaced between 2010 and 2015. It shows the struggle of armed groups in contention to control the editorial line of the media, as well as the vulnerability of the heralds for being in the middle of the line of fire, for the lack of security protocols developed by the companies, and the existing links between public officials and organized crime. In this context, where homicides and disappearances of journalists go unpunished, initiatives are emerging that seek to redress their high professional vulnerability.