Blanca Mónica Marín Valadez holds a degree in Social Anthropology from the School of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley. uv; Master in Anthropology at ciesas-D. candidate in Mesoamerican Studies at the Universidad de la Plata. unam. He received an honorable mention from the inah en 2015, en la categoría Fray Bernardino de Sahagún con la tesis de maestría “Prostitución y religión: el Kumbala bar y el culto a san Simón en un lugar llamado Macondo de la frontera México-Guatemala”. Ha participado en publicaciones en México, Polonia y Guatemala, además de tomado parte en diversos coloquios y congresos. Sus principales líneas de investigación son religiosidades populares, violencias, migración y frontera entre México y Guatemala. Forma parte de la Sociedad Mexicana para el Estudio de las Religiones (smer) as of March 3, 2020.

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Devotions in transit: an ethnographic approach to the Soconusco Isthmus-Costa migratory circuit.

  • Blanca Mónica Marín Valadez

The migration phenomenon in the Soconusco region, Chiapas, reflects a melting pot of human experiences crossed by social, economic and cultural challenges. This border region, with a historical migratory mobility, has stood out for receiving thousands of migrants from Central America, South America, Africa and Asia seeking to reach the United States or to settle in different regions of Mexico, who face various obstacles along the way. The purpose of this paper is to show the role played by religious representations, not only as a manifestation of faith, but also as symbolic expressions that allow subjects in migratory mobility to reaffirm their social meanings, build communities of support and mitigate the challenges derived from their conditions of vulnerability.