Drawing from over a decade-long multi-sited ethnography, this presentation explores migrant subjectivities and (im)mobility experiences across contexts as disparate as Mexico, Turkey, and Morocco. Despite vast differences in historical, cultural, and societal contexts, as well as in their positions within the international geopolitical landscape, these countries share strategic locations that make them crucial for Western interests in controlling and filtering international mobility. Evolving diplomatic relations and economic/political pressures convert those attempting to cross these territories into bargaining chips for those in power on both sides of the border, regardless of the suffering and deaths caused by mobility control policies. Migrants’ narratives elucidate the functioning of border regimes and their impacts on those ensnared within their confines through the fortification of border mechanisms and the proliferation of bordering processes, which create routes of existential precarity from which many migrants find it difficult to escape. The stories presented challenge traditional notions of 'transit' and 'mobility', as the presumed transitory nature is hindered by material and symbolic borders that encapsulate individuals within territories of hardship, vigilance and/or crime These scenarios embody a dual expression of coloniality: one that shapes the migration policies of these countries under the influence of powerful nations and local elites, and one that infiltrates the lives of those attempting to cross or who become stranded, transforming them into illegalized, racialized, commodified, and dehumanized subjects. The coloniality of transit engenders practices that oppress migrants intersectionally, hindering their spatio-existential mobility and endangering their survival. However, (im)mobilities must also be understood from migrants' perspective and desires, revealing their agency and creative ways of engaging with the world through their relationships, knowledge-sharing, collective actions, and transformative learning. Amidst countless obstacles, migrants resist and destabilize the coloniality of transit through painful yet determined practices of self-reappropriation along processes of revindication, resistance and re-existance.