The symbolic violence of tolerance zones: Constructing the spatial marginalization of female Central American migrant sex workers in Mexico

摘要: Abstract In this paper, we explore how the spatial ordering of sex-work in southern Mexico naturalizes presence migrant women designated “tolerance zones”. Drawing on a feminist approach to ethnographic research city Dominguez, Chiapas, critically analyze symbolic powers concealed and enacted through official discourse “tolerance” public health regulations commercial sex embodied everyday life from Central America. We engage with debates regarding geographies work oppression illustrate tolerance zones mediate maintain marginal status female workers who, despite their irregular migration status, are constructed (and view themselves) as bodies “need tolerance”. Our analysis practices that govern illustrates becomes vehicle for violence, naturalizing unequal social relations power lives American women.