Protection under Exclusion: Ecuador’s "War" on Human Trafficking and Migrants Smuggling and its New Logic of Migration Control

Far from conceiving that security and human rights, on one hand, and restriction and protection, on the other, are two exclusionary perspectives in international migration management, this article argues that both articulate and feed one another. Drawing on research on governmentality, we explore th...

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Autores: Ruiz Muriel, Martha Cecilia, Álvarez Velasco, Soledad
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios Sociológicos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx:article/1686
Acceso en línea:https://estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx/index.php/es/article/view/1686
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:migration;
governmentality;
human trafficking;
migrant smuggling;
post-neoliberalism
Migraciones
gubernamentalidad
trata de personas
tráfico de migrantes
post-neoliberalismo
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Sumario:Far from conceiving that security and human rights, on one hand, and restriction and protection, on the other, are two exclusionary perspectives in international migration management, this article argues that both articulate and feed one another. Drawing on research on governmentality, we explore this articulation, while analysing anti-trafficking and anti-smuggling policies, core elements within regional and international migration agendas. We focus on Ecuador’s “Citizens Revolution” government. Based upon an ethnographic study, we reveal the role migrants smuggling and human trafficking have strategically played in the production of “risky migration” and “migrant irregularity”, and in justifying exceptional measures during particular conjunctures defined as “humanitarian crises”. We conclude that migration policies formulated during the Ecuadorean “post neoliberal” period are not wholly autonomous nor dissident, but functional to the global and hegemonic neoliberal migration control regime.