Resumen de Mexico, Transdisciplinarity Migration:: Misery and Mercy in Central America
Darío Fabián Hernández González
Migration is a sociocultural phenomenon widely examined by different disciplines of science and philosophy. Few studies have been carried out in a multidisciplinary way, and much less in a transdisciplinar way. Before explaining the migration from a transdisciplinar point of view we must explain what transdisciplinarity is, and to understand this term we must specify that there are several reality levels, complex thought and the included middle as the basic method. The levels of reality are studied and understood through the different scientific disciplines (physics, biology, agronomy, psychology, anthropology, etc.). In order for transdisciplinarity to exist, there must be an object of study in common (in this case migration), and it must be studied from the different points of view of the different disciplines, the group of disciplines that make up the different realities. Nevertheless, for it to be truly transdisciplinar and not only multidisciplinary, it is necessary that the levels of reality interact with each other, that the scientific disciplines work in a coordinated way among themselves, but also with other complementary approaches, such as philosophy and the traditional knowledge, and not only in a disciplinar complex.Migration inside the American Continent occurs mainly from Central America to the United States. This represents a third part of the total migrant population of the American Continent, almost 400 000 migrants per year that go through the Paso de la muerte (the Death’s Path). The main reason is the so call American Dream, in other words, the expectation to achieve a socioeconomic level that agrees with a market economy which fulfills the necessity of having and getting more material satisfiers, this means, to have more and better goods and services, mainly made (ironic and paradoxically) in the countries they come from; where environmental restrictions, employment protection, and other laws, are minimal. The Central America migrants are mainly poor people who begin the journey towards the USA in search of a better lifestyle without knowing, or believing, that during this journey their life quality will be pushed to the limits of degradation and mistreatment, which commonly make them lose not only their psychological but also their physical integrity, because of the dangers that await them in this journey.
