And now what does our hopes draw? A case study from the migrant perspective

Abstract

This paper addresses the expectations of the male migrant population in order to understand how the imaginary of the migratory process is currently being constructed. Faced with the stories of defeat, violence and insecurity, a panorama emerges for the migrant that brings him closer to a chasm of choice between the need for poverty, the function for man and the risk for illusion. This work aims to outline the personal expectations held by migrants; under a mixed approach, 27 interviews were conducted between February and October of 2017 with migrant men in the breakfast room San Luis Gonzaga, north of the mexican city of Hermosillo (Sonora). The results obtained bring the readers closer to reality, the fears, the needs, the framework between the duty to do masculine and the construction of the social representation that migrant men draw about what it is to migrate.