Irregularized migrants in transit to the U.S. are spatially connecting and reshaping the Americas and beyond. Impeded from migrating through regular channels due to tightening visa regulations, migrants coming from South and Central America, the Caribbean, African and Asian countries have been on the move for days, weeks, months, or even years before reaching the Mexico-U.S. Border. Many carry in their memories and bodies previous experiences of unlawful transits across other world borders and enduring protracted periods of waiting and uncertainty. This workshop brings together early career anthropologists and ethnographically driven researchers from adjacent disciplines from Latin America and who work in the region. Drawing from their work across the region, they emphasize the frictions, adjustments, transgressions, and infrastructures that are generated, intertwined, and transformed through and against the (im)mobilities and immobilizations that shape the Andean Region-Central America migratory corridor.

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