Migration in South America: Imiscoe Regional Reader

ISBN-13: 9783031110634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Herrera, Gioconda

Opis

This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks at conceptual discussions on mixed and survival migration, the link between migration and extractivism, and the specific character of transit migration. A second part examines how these debates have led to transformations in state policies, and the shift in government policies from a human rights-based approach towards more restrictive ones. Finally, the third section revisits the relationship between racism, xenophobia and colonialism in contemporary migrations. As such this book makes an interesting read to students, academics, policy makers and all those working in the field.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Emergent Issues of South American Migrations

Gioconda Herrera and Carmen Gomez 

Part I        Emerging Mobilities and Old Exclusions

2 Extractive Economy and Mobilities? The Case of Large Copper Mining in the Antofagasta Region

Carolina Stefoni, Fernanda Stang, and Pablo Rojas

3 Between Hostility and Solidarity: The Production of the Andean Region–Southern Cone Transit Migratory Corridor

Soledad Álvarez Velasco

4 State and “Mixed Migrations”.  Migration Policies towards Haitians, Colombians and Venezuelans in Ecuador

Carmen Gómez and Gioconda Herrera

Part II        Law and Migration Policies: From Human Rights to Border Closures 

5 A Decade of Growth in Migration in Brazil (2010–2020) and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tânia Tonhati, Leonardo Cavalcanti, and Antônio Tadeu de Oliveira

6 Contradictions and Shifts in Discourse and Application of the Refugee System in a Mixed-Migration Context: The Ecuadorian Case 164

Jennifer Moya, Consuelo Sánchez Bautista, and Jeffrey D. Pugh

7 The Legality of (Im)mobility

Migration, Coyoterismo, and Indigenous Justice in Southern Ecuador.

Ulla D. Berg and Lucía Pérez Martínez

Part III       Racism and Xenophobia and Struggles over Migrant’s Rights

8 Institutional and social xenophobia towards Venezuelan migrants in the context of a racialized country: the case of Peru

Cécile Blouin and Cristina María Zamora Gómez

9 When Migrant Pain Does Not Deserve Attention: Institutional Racism in Chile’s Public Health System

María Emilia Tijoux Merino and Constanza Ambiado Cortés

10 Inequalities and The Social Process of Categorizing: Migrant Work in Argentina’s Garment Industry

Sergio Caggiano

O autorze

Gioconda Herrera obtained her Ph.D in Sociology at Columbia University, USA.  Since 1997 she is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences at FLACSO, Ecuador. Her researches look at the link between globalization and social inequalities with a special focus on the study of international migrations in South America. She has written extensively on gender, migration and development in different migration corridors. Currently her main research interests focus on migrants responses to deportation policies and life after deportation among Ecuadorian indigenous migrants and on migrant survival strategies among Venezuelan migrants in South America, particularly women and children. 

Carmen Gómez obtained her Ph.D in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Paris, France, 2010. She is Full Professor of the Department of Sociology and Gender Studies at FLACSO, Ecuador. Her works are inserted in the line of sociology of globalization, social inequalities and international migrations. Her main research and publications revolve around two fields of study that are approached from critical perspectives: asylum/refugee and forced displacement; and studies on skilled migrations. These areas of research interest include diverse geographies: Latin America, Maghreb and Middle East.