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Crises and Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Crises and Migration

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, Nicaragu...

Material Culture and (Forced) Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

Material Culture and (Forced) Migration

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-02-17
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration. During journeys of migration, people take things with them, or they lose, find and engage things along the way. Movements themselves are framed by objects such as borders, passports, tents, camp infrastructures, boats and mobile phones. This volume brings together chapters that are based on research into a broad range of movements – from the study of forced migration and displacement to the analysis of retirement migration. What ties the chapters together is the perspective of material culture and an understanding of materiality that does not reduce objects to mere symbols. Centring on ...

Binational Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Binational Human Rights

  • Categories: Law

Mexico ranks highly on many of the measures that have proven significant for creating a positive human rights record, including democratization, good health and life expectancy, and engagement in the global economy. Yet the nation's most vulnerable populations suffer human rights abuses on a large scale, such as gruesome killings in the Mexican drug war, decades of violent feminicide, migrant deaths in the U.S. desert, and the ongoing effects of the failed detention and deportation system in the States. Some atrocities have received extensive and sensational coverage, while others have become routine or simply ignored by national and international media. Binational Human Rights examines both...

The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law

The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law analyses how lawyers representing refugees use human rights provisions in national constitutions to close the gap between the Law and its implementation. The book examines how laws are adapted to suit social, political, and legal contexts, focusing on Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, and the US.

Border Transgression
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Border Transgression

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-10-02
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  • Publisher: V&R Unipress

This volume addresses processes of human mobility in times of crisis from different scientific perspectives and at a global and trans-regional level. The first part sets out to discuss established paradigms in migration studies and politics in order to suggest new approaches to analyse mobility, migration and to challenge boundary making approaches. The second part presents empirical cases from Latin America and Spain to demonstrate how migrants challenge, negotiate and mobilize citizenship and belonging. The third part deals with the question how belonging is produced and identity is constructed at a transnational level. New information and communication technologies, human mobility but also the mobility of concepts, ideas and values foster these collectivization processes across and within physical and symbolic borders.

Bodies on the Front Lines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 471

Bodies on the Front Lines

Revolutionary feminism, queer, and trans activist movements are traversing Latin America and the Caribbean. Bodies on the Front Lines situates recent performances and protests within legacies of homegrown gender and sexual rights activism from the South. Performances—enacted in public spaces and intimate venues, across national borders, and through circulating hashtags and digital media—play crucial roles in the elaboration, auto-theorization, translation, and reception of feminist, queer, and trans activism. Movements such as Argentina's NiUnaMenos (Not One Less) have brought masses of protesters and “artivists” on the streets of major cities in Latin America and beyond to denounce ...

Exil, Flucht, Migration
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 322

Exil, Flucht, Migration

Das interdisziplinäre Jahrbuch widmet sich der Erforschung der Bedingungen, Erscheinungsformen und kulturellen Reflexionen des Exils. Programmatisch ist eine Perspektive auf die Besonderheiten der Zwangsmigration, ihrer Erfahrungsdimensionen und kulturellen Artikulationen. Das Kernthema Flucht und Exil infolge der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur wird mit der Erforschung anderer, auch gegenwärtiger Exile verbunden.

Latin America's Global Border System
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Latin America's Global Border System

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-05-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Latin America’s Global Border System is the opening volume in the first collection of academic works devoted exclusively to borders and illegal markets in Latin America. This volume features expert discussions on border issues of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico and Peru, as well as studies on illegal markets, cities, and gender as a first step to understanding the intricacies of the global border system of illegal markets and Latin America’s role in it. The book constitutes a valuable source of information on the geographic, economic, demographic, and social characteristics of the most important Latin American border regions, and their relation to global illegal markets, while also offering valuable insights into the ways illegal markets are organized in each country and how they connect across borders to create the global border system. This book will not only be a valuable resource for academics and students of international relations, security studies, border studies and contemporary Latin America, but will also prove relevant to national and international policy-makers devoted to foreign, security and development policies.

Binational Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Binational Human Rights

Mexico ranks highly on many of the measures that have proven significant for creating a positive human rights record, including democratization, good health and life expectancy, and engagement in the global economy. Yet the nation's most vulnerable populations suffer human rights abuses on a large scale, such as gruesome killings in the Mexican drug war, decades of violent feminicide, migrant deaths in the U.S. desert, and the ongoing effects of the failed detention and deportation system in the States. Some atrocities have received extensive and sensational coverage, while others have become routine or simply ignored by national and international media. Binational Human Rights examines both...

¿Volver a casa?
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 702

¿Volver a casa?

Esta obra tiene un doble propósito. Primero, contribuir a la comprensión de las experiencias divergentes de relocalización de los migrantes, de las modalidades y los significados que adquirió volver a casa en América Latina a partir de 2008, punto de inflexión hacia una recesión económica que ha tenido efectos nodales sobre la dinámica de los flujos migratorios y, por supuesto, sobre los mercados laborales e inmobiliarios en el ámbito global. Segundo, explicar y analizar los efectos y las dinámicas diferenciadas de volver a casa en América Latina, en un momento histórico signado por el control de las migraciones y el cierre de las fronteras nacionales.