If we can see it, we can understand it. If we can understand it, we can fix it: The roots of the crisis of enforced disappearances in Mexico.

Abstract

This project aimed to investigate the causes of the enforced disappearance crisis that Mexico is going through. Enforce disappearance is one of the most serious violations of human rights. The case of Mexico is of great relevance for a human rights study that seeks to provide recommendations for the improvement of public policies aimed at combating this crisis. The research questions are: 1) why has there been an exponential increase in disappearances in Mexico since 2006 to 2022? 2) what role has the militarization of public security played in this crisis? And 3) what has been the impact of the exponential increase of ED between 2006 and 2022 on women? The methodology that was selected is that of a Systematic Literature Review as it enables the researcher to present a summary of all the existing relevant literature on a specific topic. The interconnection of the three research questions is found by the elements that were found across them, i.e., Impunity, Criminal Organisations, Necropolitics, the War on Drugs and Militarization. These could become key overarching and main concepts for further research on enforced disappearances in Mexico. In addition, each research question has its own set of other specific concepts of analysis.