The Migration Crisis in the American Southern Cone

This book analyzes how the increase in migration from other Latin American countries to countries of the American Southern Cone such as Brazil, Argentina and Chile has generated a crisis fueled by the emergence of hate discourses towards migrant populations. While extracontinental migration to Europe, North America and elsewhere has waned over the last decades, migration between Latin American countries has increased dramatically as a product of the differential development of the region's economies, violence, and political turmoil. This book sets out to explain the effects of these trends by analyzing statistical data, official documents and ethnographic material gathered over a long period of research carried out throughout South America.

The volume is divided in two parts. In the first part, it presents a theoretical contribution, synthesizing particularities of intraregional migration in Latin America, as well as the emergence of hate discourses towards migrant populations, developing approaches oriented towards a critical gender perspective. It also underlines important contributions that Latin American migration studies can make to current debates about migration across the globe. In the second part, it presents case studies dedicated to Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

The Migration Crisis in the American Southern Cone: Hate Speech and its Social Consequences will be a valuable resource to migration studies researchers by presenting fresh theoretical and empirical contributions to the field from a Latin American perspective.

Auteur

Menara Guizardi holds an MA in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, both from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). Between 2016 and 2018, she has completed her first postdoctoral degree in social anthropology, with a scholarship from the Doctoral College of the National University of San Martín (Argentina). Between 2018 and 2020, she completed her second postdoctoral degree, with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina (CONICET). She is an Associate Researcher at the University of Tarapacá (Arica, Chile), and a Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research at the Institute of Higher Social Studies of the National University of San Martín (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Her main research topics are borders, gender, migrations, inter-ethnic relations, racism, and social exclusion. Her most recent books are "Des/venturas de las Fronteras: una etnografía sobre las mujeres peruanas entre Chile y Perú", published in 2019 and "Capoeira: Etnografía de una historia transnacional entre Brasil y Madrid", published in 2017, both by the Editions of the Alberto Hurtado University (Santiago, Chile). In addition, she edited the volume "Las fronteras del transnacionalismo. Límites y desbordes de la experiencia migrante en el centro y norte de Chile" published in 2015 by Ocho Libros (Santiago, Chile).