Territories of migrancy and meaning: The emotional politics of borderscapes in the lives of deported Mexican men in Tijuana Renato de Almeida Arao Galhardi Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico Abstract This article discusses how Mexican deportees find meaning and negotiate their agency in the borderscape and borderland of Tijuana, Mexico. Established through vice tourism, Tijuana has fig- ured prominently as a site for expressions of migrancy. Within the expressions of migrancy, deported migrants find themselves in constant states of in-betweenness in systems of mediation. Through in-depth interviews with deported Mexican men living in temporary male-centric shel- ters, I identify and examine the issues of mobility ‘through the body’ of deported migrants, high- lighting the politics of emotions, of being, and of seeing. Through analysis of the phenomenology of migration through Tijuana, I highlight the overreaching situated positions of permanent tempor- ality mediating the lives of deported Mexican men. This perspective, therefore, sheds a necessary light on an often overlooked and marginalized condition of the migrant population. Keywords borders, deportees, embodiment, emotionality, masculinities, Mexican, migration, positionality, Mexican, Tijuana Tijuana seems to defy the ordinary laws of gravity. — Mike Davis, La Frontera’s Siamese Twins Corresponding author: Renato de Almeida Arao Galhardi, Social and Political Sciences, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico. Email: renato.almeida@correo.uia.mx International Journal of Cultural Studies 1–17 © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/13678779221144758 journals.sagepub.com/home/ics (Im)mobile Entanglements