Visibility of migrant voices and subjects. Decoloniality and the approach to cross-border human mobility, October 2021. (original) (raw)

2021, América Latina en Movimiento

Decoloniality and the approach to cross-border human mobility Visibility of migrant voices and subjects To explain international migrations, it is necessary to strengthen and disseminate approaches that recognize the centrality and agency of the migrant social subjects. For several decades and particularly from various academic boundaries, contemporary international migrations have been explained as macro processes derived from dynamics that are socio-political (such as war conflicts and contexts of violence, etc.), environmental (with the impacts of phenomena such as hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes, etc.), and, above all, economic (such as the deterioration of production and low wages in the countries of origin and the demand for precarious and poorly paid labor and work in the places of destination for the reduction of production costs). In this sense, it is necessary to strengthen and disseminate approaches that, without forgetting the historical political determinants and structural factors of migration, recognize the centrality and agency of the migrant social subjects involved. It is about putting migrants as the protagonists of these cross-border human mobilities in the axis of analysis, just as the perspectives of Sayad's political sociology of migration have done and, more recently, the approaches to the autonomy of migration and the migrant struggles.