Crises and Migration

Critical Perspectives from Latin America
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-07061-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 341 g

Reihe: Latin American Societies

This book critically examines the association between the notions of crisis and migration in the context of Latin America, and from three different perspectives: first, it analyzes the discourses based on the concept of crisis employed by the media, academic researchers, civil society organizations and the state to frame human mobility issues; second, it investigates migrants’ agency under conditions of crisis; and third, it discusses whether “migration crisis” is a conjunctural or structural phenomenon in the region.

Chapters in this contributed volume investigate the crisis-migration nexus in seven Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay – by discussing different human mobility phenomena, such as the migrant caravans that departed from Central America bound to Mexico and the United States; the Nicaraguan exodus caused by the political crisis in the country; the perception of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia’s media;the presence of Caribbean migrants in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.

Crisis and Migration: Critical Perspectives from Latin America  will be of interest to a wide range of social scientists interested in migration studies, as well as to policy makers and civil society organizations. This book offers a fresh look at the way we conceive, represent, and think about the relationship between crisis and human mobility. As the volume’s contributions show, a critical examination of the notion of crisis is a first step towards a more comprehensive understanding of the plight of present-day migrants worldwide.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coraza de los Santos, Enrique

Arriola Vega, Luis Alfredo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.At the Crisis-Migration Crossroads: Scope and Limits.- Part I.- 2.Venezuelan Migration and Crime in Colombia: Migrant Stigmatization in the Media and its Connection to a Crisis of (Failed) Integration of Said Migrants.- 3.“Migration Crisis” and Migrant Caravans (October 2018-January 2019) in Mexico: An Analysis from Contemporary Academic Publications.- 4.Emerging from Crisis: Transformations in Uruguayan Migration Management of Venezuelan Migration.- Part II.- 5.The COVID 19 Pandemic as Crisis: Immobility of Workers in Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina.- 6.Parting and Keep on Existing. Crisis and Reproduction of the Existence of Migrants and their Collectives in the City of Rosario.- 7.Mobility and Crisis in Nicaragua. Narratives and Subjectivities of Forced Migration.- Part III.- 8.Migration Crisis in Brazil and Treatment of Venezuelan Migrants.- 9.Nicaraguans in Costa Rica: Continued Crisis as Context in Nicaragua and as Breakdown of Normality in Costa Rica.- 10.Violent Contexts and “Crisis” in Mexico-Central America and Colombia-Venezuela Cross-border Dynamics, 2010-2020.

Über Autor(innen)

Enrique Coraza de los Santos  is a tenured researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico, and holds a PhD in History from the University of Salamanca, Spain. He develops research on human mobility, with a focus on forced mobility (i.e. exile, displacement, forced migration); border and transborder studies; memor and; human rights. 
Luis Alfredo Arriola Vega  is a researcher and professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico, and holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida. He is an expert in Central American migration in Mexico, with a special focus on the study of the Guatemala-Mexico border area.