Haciendo-lugar vía huellas y apegos: las personas migrantes africanas y sus experiencias de movilidad, inmovilidad e inserción local en América Latina. Introducción al dossier temático REMHU 56

Winters, Nanneke; Reiffen, Franziska

doi:10.1590/1980-85852503880005602

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“…However, she also remembered how some of the migrants helped each other, for example, by carrying children and allowing a little rest before continuing when someone got behind (interview August 26, San José). When migrants make it through the jungle, and through the Panamanian control apparatus, the trip to the Costa Rican border and on to San José and La Cruz is relatively straightforward due to a bilateral agreement between Panama and Costa Rica (Winters & Reiffen, 2019, p. 26). Then, in the midst of all this border‐crossing, La Cruz is a typical place to get stuck.…”

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A shifting yet grounded transnational social field: Interplays of displacement and emplacement in African migrant trajectories across Central America

Drotbohm

Winters

2021

Population Space and Place

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In this article, we draw on the volatile complexity of African migrant trajectories in Central America to broaden the scope of transnational scholarship. These trajectories are characterised by mobilities as well as immobilities, taking shape in particular local contexts. By focusing on the interplays between displacement and emplacement that are part of these trajectories, we aim to increase our understanding of the extent to which migrants still ‘on the move’ experience both temporal embeddedness and cross‐border connectedness, thereby acknowledging and unravelling transnational lives as they ‘touch the ground’ en route. To do so, we build on long‐standing scholarly commitments in Central and South America and recent field research in Costa Rica. We go into selected empirical cases to discuss the dynamics of travelling, dwelling and travelling again as part of African migrant trajectories across Central America. We then explore the value of a ‘shifting’ transnational social field perspective and indicate some challenges for future trajectory research.

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“…4 4 For more information about African migration to Latin American countries, including the different routes, modes of entry, and migration regimes, please see Winters and Reiffen (2019). …”

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A shifting yet grounded transnational social field: Interplays of displacement and emplacement in African migrant trajectories across Central America

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Winters

2021

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“…It holds people together, but in such a way that everybody is still on their way to somewhere else. In these impermanent settings, people bond in place and create connections to move onwards (Winters and Reiffen 2019). In this constant dis(location), people try to find updates about co-migrants and ask around about the safety of friends.…”

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Sheltering as a destabilising and perpetuating practice in the migration management architecture in Mexico

Escorza

Davids

Schapendonk

2020

Third World Quarterly

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This paper discusses shelters in relation to the migration industry that shapes irregular migration from Central America to Mexico. Whereas the migration industry literature often separates migration facilitation from migration control, we instead position shelters at the intersection of the two domains. We use an assemblage approach to better understand how different institutions, policies, responsibilities, actors and discourses meet, clash and intertwine at shelters. Based on our ethnographic material, we distinguish three significant processes that characterise sheltering practices (attraction, multiple performativities, (dis) location) and analyse how these processes display different, sometimes contradictory, discourses and power relations. With these insights, we conclude that sheltering practices reinforce as well as destabilise migration management architecture in Mexico. They undermine the presupposed 'rigidity' of migration management, but they simultaneously attract violence and control, and incorporate state-like practices of administration and discipline. In particular, the notions of 'humanitarian aid' and 'mobility control' are floating signifiers in these practices in the sense that they are constantly open to different ascriptions of meaning. Following this observation, we consider the migration management architecture as a form of plasticity. Its shape and function might appear to be rigid, but it is able to bend, bow and change in forms rather easily.

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“…Although Latin America is far from a unified entity, for many of its countries, close social, economic, and political-legal entanglements require an approach that at once addresses individual political regimes and international migration politics and the volatility of human movement. In focusing on trans-American migration routes, we recognize that each locality and each individual state has its own shifting discourses, legal and bureaucratic regulations, and informal practices for dealing with diverse migrations (Cantor et al 2015;Winters and Reiffen 2019). Thus, to understand how different migrant categories come into being, how distinct localities shape categorization along the way, and the kinds of experiences these categories generate, we suggest combining a transitory-subject-centered perspective that examines those (geo)political dynamics that impact the ways mobile populations are perceived, received, and categorized in moments of temporary presence.…”

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The Event in Migrant Categorization: Exploring Eventfulness Across the Americas

Drotbohm

Winters

2020

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The categories that define people on the move must be understood as unstable, contingent, and provisional processes. This paper contributes to a growing body of scholarship that explores the lived complexities of migrant categorization and their social implications. Based on fieldwork in Brazil and Central America, the paper investigates the processual character of categorization by intertwining temporal and spatial dimensions, focusing on specific events to understand the occasions, circumstances, and intentions that bring about adapted or entirely new categories. An eventful notion of categorization demonstrates not only how categories come into being but also how categories remain connected to particular events that are recognized or produced in response to movement. These categories stick to the identity of a subject in transit, confirming and solidifying it; however, they can also challenge the subject’s legal stability, generating new insecurities and (im-)mobilities.

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Haciendo-lugar vía huellas y apegos: las personas migrantes africanas y sus experiencias de movilidad, inmovilidad e inserción local en América Latina. Introducción al dossier temático REMHU 56

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

A shifting yet grounded transnational social field: Interplays of displacement and emplacement in African migrant trajectories across Central America

A shifting yet grounded transnational social field: Interplays of displacement and emplacement in African migrant trajectories across Central America

Sheltering as a destabilising and perpetuating practice in the migration management architecture in Mexico

The Event in Migrant Categorization: Exploring Eventfulness Across the Americas

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