BELA FELDMAN-BIANCO (UNICAMP)

TOWARDS A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENTS: A LATIN AMERICAN

ETHNOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW

A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENTS

PROPOSAL

Global migration should be examined as an integral part of a variety of

types and scales of displacements as a way of bringing to light the

interstices of domination and power and, thus, the logics of partial

access, exclusion and dispossession produced by contemporary

capitalism.

A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENTS

This means that, if we take into account a variety of types and scales of

displacements (such as transnational migrations, refuge, deportations,

human trafficking, internal migrations and displacements forced by wars,

large developments projects or real state interests, assassinations,

imprisonments, militarization of urban peripheries, among others) as part of

a global perspective on migrations and displacements, we can

understand better the relations between these different

mobilities/immobilities and the production of social inequalities in this

conjuncture of capitalism

TOWARDS A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENTS

• The starting assumption is that an examination of the current social

processes demands new theoretical paradigms capable of dissolving

the ingrained positivist fragmentation that divides knowledge in

different fields of study and reifies the nation-state.

• The formulation of this broader perspective on migration and

displacements is an attempt to place migrations, migration policies

and the social agency of migrants, refugees and other (internal)

displaced people against a global scenery marked by flexible capital

and labor, outsourcing, privatization, financialization, technocratic

governance, state redistribution and state violence

MOBILITIES AND IMMOBILITESGLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND THE NEW LOGIC OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION

IN THIS FORMULATION, I TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT:

• The control of the mobility/immobility of migrants, refuge seekers and

refugees has turned into a priority of the multilateral agencies and

national governments 'public agendas

• Also the internal displacements related to the removal of territories

and people at the margins have became de focus of local public

policies that reflect global multilateral agendas

USEFUL CONCEPTUAL TOOLS TO DISCERN THE CURRENT PROCESSES THROUGH THE PERSPECTIVE OF CAPITAL

I ALSO RELY ON:

• Harvey´s accumulation by dispossession idea & the emergence of a “new imperialism (2004)

• Sassen´s notion of expulsions & the emergence of a new logic of exclusion, in the last decades. ( 2014)

• Quijano’s coloniality of power notion & racialization and gendered

classification of the world

NEW LOGICS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION:MOBILITY AND RESTRICTIONS TO MOBILITY

•My interest is to understand the relations between the increasing social

unequalities and dispossession & the social action and agency of

migrants, refugees and other displaced people in the present

conjuncture of capitalism.

•“WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO RIGHTS”? & “ WHO HAS RIGHT TO BE HUMAN?

•Are there global patterns?

GLOBAL MIGRATIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS: A LATIN-AMERICAN ETHNOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW

• In this presentation, I focus on the impacts of Latin-American dialogues

and ethnographies in the formulation of a global perspective on

migration and displacements.

• This set of ethnographies comprises historical or comparative case-

studies directed at deciphering the apparent contradictions between

humanitarianism and securitization, whether from the viewpoint of

migration and refugees governance policies, border control and

trafficking of human being or illicit goods, forced political and

ecological (internal) displacements, policing of/ or the management

of disputes, conflicts, assassinations in urban squatters and peripheries.

TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS, MIGRATION POLICIES AND THE MANAGEMENT OF MIGRATION AND BORDERS CONTROL

THE EQUATION BETWEEN MIGRATION AND CRIME LEGITIMIZES THE PRODUCTION OF ILLEGALITY

DICOTOMIC CLASSIFICATIONS AND CATEGORIES:

LEGAL - ILLEGAL REGULAR - IRREGULAR

DEPORTED - DEPORTATION,

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: VICTIM - ACCUSER

NEW LOGICS OF EXPULSION:BORDERS & CRIMINALIZATION OF IMMIGRANTS

FORTRESS EUROPE : DEATH AT THE NAS FRONTEIRAS

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND THE MANAGEMENT OF SPATIAL DISPLACEMENTS FROM/TO BRAZIL

OF WAR, SPOILS, DISPOSSESSION AND VICTIMS: FORCED MIGRATION (COLOMBIA)

OF WAR, SPOILS, DISPOSSESSION AND VICTIMS: FORCED (INTERNAL) DISPLACEMENTS

FORCED DISPLACEMENTS AND THE MOBILIZATIONS FOR PEACE (COLOMBIA)

forced displacements, massacres and dispossessionSan Fernando massacre-México 2010

72 dead immigrants

FORCED (INTERNAL) DISPLACEMENTS, ECOLOGICAL DISASTER

AND LARGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS: BELO MONTE (BRAZIL)

SOCIAL MOBILIZATIONS AGAINST LARGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS: BELO MONTE (BRASIL)

Land conflicts and the assassinations of the guarani kaiowá

WARS AS A FRAME OF REFERENCE: ROUTINE AND THE EVENT OF POLICING IN THE URBAN MARGINS.

ON MOURNING AND STRUGGLES: STATE VIOLENCE

THANK YOU!

TAKK!