This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks at conceptual discussions on mixed and survival migration, the link between migration and extractivism, and the specific character of transit migration. A second part examines how these debates have led to transformations in state policies, and the shift in government policies from a human rights-based approach towards more restrictive ones. Finally, the third section revisits the relationship between racism, xenophobia and colonialism in contemporary migrations. As such this book makes an interesting read to students, academics, policy makers and all those working in the field.

This open access book examines new patterns of international migration in South America Identifies main debates on issues of mixed, survival, transit and circular migrations Revisits the relationship between racism, xenophobia and colonialism in contemporary migrations This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Gioconda Herrera obtained her Ph.D in Sociology at Columbia University, USA. Since 1997 she is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences at FLACSO, Ecuador. Her researches look at the link between globalization and social inequalities with a special focus on the study of international migrations in South America. She has written extensively on gender, migration and development in different migration corridors. Currently her main research interests focus on migrants responses to deportation policies and life after deportation among Ecuadorian indigenous migrants and on migrant survival strategies among Venezuelan migrants in South America, particularly women and children.

Carmen Gómez obtained her Ph.D in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Paris, France, 2010. She is Full Professor of the Department of Sociology and Gender Studies at FLACSO, Ecuador. Her works are inserted in the line of sociology of globalization, social inequalities and international migrations. Her main research and publications revolve around two fields of study that are approached from critical perspectives: asylum/refugee and forced displacement; and studies on skilled migrations. These areas of research interest include diverse geographies: Latin America, Maghreb and Middle East.

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Part 1. Emerging Mobilities and Old Exclusions.- 1. Extractivist Economy, Mobilities and Exclusions: The case of Large Copper Mining in the City of Antofagasta (Carolina Stefoni, Fernanda Stang and Pablo Rojas Varas).- 2. New Spaces of Transit within South America: The Outline of the Migratory Transit Corridor Andean Region-Southern Cone countries-Brazil (Soledad Álvarez Velasco).- 3. Rethinking mixed flows: An analysis from the Experience of Haitian, Colombia and Venezuelan Migration to Ecuador (Carmen Gómez and Gioconda Herrera).- Part 2. Law and Migration Policies: From Human Rights to Border Closures.- 4. Contradictions and Shifts in Discourse and Application of the Refugee System: Colombian Forced Migrants in Ecuador (Jeffrey Pugh).- 5. Exposed Hostility: The Politics of Deportation in Argentina (Eduardo Domenech).- 6. The New Brazilian Migration Policy: Haitian and Venezuelans Flows and North Amazon border (Tânia Tonhati and Leonardo Cavalcanti).- 7. Migration and Legal Pluralism: Coyoterismo, and Legal Strategies in Cañari migration to the US (Ulla Berg and Lucía Pérez Martinez).- Part 3. Racism and Xenophobia and Struggles over Migrant´s Rights.- 8. Exclusive Migration Policy and Xenophobia towards the Venezuelan Population in Peru (Cecile Blouin and Cristina Zamora).- 9. Experts, Resources and Infrastructure: Three Ways of Building Racism against Migrants in Chile´s Health System (Maria Emilia Tijoux and Constanza Ambiado Cortés).- 10. Migrant´s Organizations, Social Categories and Inequalities in Contemporary Argentina (Sergio Caggiano).