Overview
- Critically discusses the association between the notions of crisis and migration in Latin America
- Analyzes the crisis-migration nexus in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay
- Discusses major migratory movements in the region, such as the Venezuelan, Nicaraguan and Haitian diasporas
Part of the book series: Latin American Societies (LAS)
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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Discursive Arenas of the Crisis-Migration Nexus
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Migration, Crisis, Agency: Intersections
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Enduring or Transitory Migration Crises?
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crises and Migration
Book Subtitle: Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Editors: Enrique Coraza de los Santos, Luis Alfredo Arriola Vega
Series Title: Latin American Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07059-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07058-7Published: 09 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07061-7Published: 10 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07059-4Published: 08 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-5538
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5546
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 208
Topics: Migration, Social Anthropology, Latin American History, Political Science, Human Geography