Blanqueamiento por despojo does similar work, pointing to how the Mexican government enables these forms of dispossession, expelling “undesirable” residents from the city’s core to further the state’s colonial and racial capitalist project and attract whitened capital (and people) to the city.

Ananya Roy introduced the idea of racial banishment, arguing that when people are expelled from their homes, acts such as eviction are forms of “state-instituted violence against racialized bodies and communities” that are rooted in longer colonial histories of genocide and enslavement (2020: 227).

This has led to entire CDMX neighborhoods being transformed into American outposts of brunch spots and chic boutiques. In @polgreen.bsky.social ‘s article, Colonia Juárez is one of the sites where the presence of American “nomads” is noted to be changing the cultural fabric of the neighborhood.