Abstract:Resumo Esta edição da revista Sociologias reflete, criticamente, sobre a produção da “ilegalidade migrante” em contextos fronteiriços latino-americanos e caribenhos. Para tal, ela conta com artigos que examinam a produção de ilegalidade através de distintos regimes de fronteira da região. São textos que trazem, através de distintas realidades empíricas analisadas, contribuições conceituais e empíricas para a sociologia pensar como a multiplicação de fronteiras no mundo contemporâneo ganha forma na América Lati… Show more
“…Countries in the Global South, both as transit hubs and destinations, have also adopted and molded migration criminalization to fit their objectives. Studies indicate escalated border controls and stricter immigration policies in regions like South America (Álvarez Velasco 2020; Dias and Domenech 2020), Africa (Vigneswaran 2013), and Asia (Missbach 2022). For example, in 2018, Malaysia detained more than 45,000 illegal immigrants for issues ranging from employment irregularities to minor legal breaches ( New Straits Times 2018).…”
Section: Locked Out: a Brief History Of Migrant Journeys In An Era Of...mentioning
Contemporary research shows that current migration policies and technologies produce criminality. It would be advantageous, then, to understand how migrants make sense of and respond to these criminalizing migration policies, technologies, and practices. This volume delves deeply into criminalization processes, focusing on how migrants perceive and react to the enactment and implementation of policy. The articles take a close look at the day-to-day experiences of criminalized migrants, advancing our understanding of some of the societal effects of migration policies and of the relationship between criminalization and migration. The collection of work presented in this volume seeks to inspire more critical scholarship, given that public narratives about migration tend to present narratives of tragedy and despair only. We argue that policy and public understanding of migration can improve if we understand more about how, exactly, migrants respond to their criminalization and how they manage to sustain their migratory projects and their lives.
“…Countries in the Global South, both as transit hubs and destinations, have also adopted and molded migration criminalization to fit their objectives. Studies indicate escalated border controls and stricter immigration policies in regions like South America (Álvarez Velasco 2020; Dias and Domenech 2020), Africa (Vigneswaran 2013), and Asia (Missbach 2022). For example, in 2018, Malaysia detained more than 45,000 illegal immigrants for issues ranging from employment irregularities to minor legal breaches ( New Straits Times 2018).…”
Section: Locked Out: a Brief History Of Migrant Journeys In An Era Of...mentioning
Contemporary research shows that current migration policies and technologies produce criminality. It would be advantageous, then, to understand how migrants make sense of and respond to these criminalizing migration policies, technologies, and practices. This volume delves deeply into criminalization processes, focusing on how migrants perceive and react to the enactment and implementation of policy. The articles take a close look at the day-to-day experiences of criminalized migrants, advancing our understanding of some of the societal effects of migration policies and of the relationship between criminalization and migration. The collection of work presented in this volume seeks to inspire more critical scholarship, given that public narratives about migration tend to present narratives of tragedy and despair only. We argue that policy and public understanding of migration can improve if we understand more about how, exactly, migrants respond to their criminalization and how they manage to sustain their migratory projects and their lives.
“…Asimismo, la presente propuesta busca aportar a la comprensión de ciertos cambios en materia de control del movimiento en un contexto de pandemia, a través de la indagación de formas de regulación y control que van más allá de las prácticas punitivas o restrictivas, cuestión prácticamente ausente en las investigaciones efectuadas en la región. Por otro lado, parte de lo desarrollado en este artículo se nutre de trabajos que han problematizado de manera reciente los usos políticos que las llamadas crisis (como "crisis migratorias", "crisis de refugiados", "crisis humanitarias") han recibido en el control de las movilidades y las fronteras (Herrera & Berg, 2019;Dias & Domenech, 2020;Domenech et al, 2022).…”
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar ciertos cambios experimentados en las políticas de control del movimiento en el espacio sudamericano en tiempos de cierres de fronteras producidos con la llegada del COVID-19. Específicamente indaga el surgimiento y la producción política del “corredor sanitario” aéreo. Sostiene que las principales transformaciones se asocian al despliegue de diversidad de prácticas de inmunización de la movilidad orientadas a clasificar, filtrar y canalizar las movilidades inmunizadas y las movilidades infecciosas en un escenario de cierres de frontera. Mediante una metodología cualitativa que articula análisis documental y una entrevista con una funcionaria de la Administración Nacional de Aviación Civil (Argentina), muestra que la legitimación del “corredor sanitario” se asocia a su producción como respuesta a las “crisis” del COVID-19 y su capacidad de atender al mandato de la “seguridad sanitaria mundial”, las narrativas económicas a favor de la reactivación de la movilidad, y las lógicas nacionalistas que consideran al virus como una amenaza para la seguridad y la salud pública.
“…In this way, both states have failed to implement their progressive legal frameworks fully. Furthermore, they allowed the paradoxical coexistence of the open-border and pro-migrant-rights progressive legal frameworks and the repressive mechanisms targeting those new flows of migrants (Álvarez Velasco 2020; Dias and Domenech 2020; Trabalón 2018).…”
We analyze how the criminalization of migration has taken hold in the borderlands of Ecuador and Colombia from 2000 to 2022, despite the existence of progressive legal frameworks in those two countries that have historically allowed for relatively open borders and recognition of migrants’ rights. We use a historical and ethnographic approach to explore how criminalizing mechanisms have been implemented, showing that the criminalization of migration happened episodically. The criminalization of migration has been justified under the legal regime of migrant-smuggling statutes, and mechanisms of criminalization have been activated only at specific junctures to halt the growth of irregularized migrations from the Global South to the U.S. We go on to argue that border crossings por trocha, as unlawful river and land pathways are locally known, have served as a strategy for resistance to criminalization and have enhanced the expansion and refinement of illegal border economies and local livelihoods.
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