In light of the fact that listening is, in its most primordial sense, a form of social recognition, this article proposes a reflection of the process of sound and listening on the symbolic practices that strengthen a silencing towards and by migrant communities as policies of rejection. It explores the categories of silence, noise and racial appreciations from which the Haitian community in Tapachula, a city of forced waiting, is perceived by institutional actors and humanitarian organizations, manifesting diverse sentiments.

This article presents an ethnographic discussion of the processes of racialization, mestizaje and the construction of identity/alterity in Punta Maldonado (El Faro), Costa Chica, Guerrero. First, it examines the concepts of race and racialization in order to understand how physical attributes have been used in the marking and hierarchization of differences; it then explores the meanings of some locally used categories that show how physical appearance, particularly hair, is socially perceived and interpreted in El Faro. Finally, it analyzes how the idea of mixture is thought of and incorporated in the narratives of El Faro. and incorporated into the collective identity narratives of this place.