Fotografía, migración y etnicidad. Políticas de (in)visibilidad en las representaciones de migrantes haitianos en la frontera norte de México

Abstract

The atypical flow of Haitian migrants stranded on the northern border of Mexico trying to legally cross into the United States between 2016 and 2017 generated photographic representations where blackness and ethnicity (Hall, Fanon) reconfigured the hegemonic visual regimes of migration, until then mostly Central American. This article analyses the dispute over visibility, between victimization, agency and dissent, both in the media and in an unpublished photographic corpus where Hatians chose how to be represented.