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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.
List of contents
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.
