This concluding chapter synthesizes the book’s empirical and conceptual contributions to argue that African migration through Mexico is governed primarily through delay, dispersion, and negotiated facilitation rather than outright exclusion. Bringing together the city interludes and longitudinal life histories, it reframes Mexico as a distributed border regime in which control is exercised through waiting, documentation bottlenecks, humanitarian triage, and discretionary enforcement far from the territorial frontier. The chapter advances the concept of temporal governance to show how suspended futures function as a central technique of migration control, interacting with legal status, gender, race, and class in patterned ways. It further interrogates vulnerability and gender mainstreaming as operational hinges of the regime that redistribute recognition and risk without resolving structural exclusion. By rendering visible the infrastructures of facilitation that sit between criminalization and care, the chapter challenges state-centric accounts of smuggling and protection. Methodologically, it reflects on the ethical and epistemic implications of longitudinal, multi-sited ethnography under conditions of crisis governance. The chapter closes by outlining policy, humanitarian, and scholarly implications, calling for a shift from triage to transformation through expanded lawful pathways, reduced bureaucratic opacity, and slow, reflexive research practices.