Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents
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
