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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Protection under Exclusion: Ecuador’s "War" on Human Trafficking and Migrants Smuggling and its New Logic of Migration ControlExcluir para proteger: la "guerra" contra la trata de personas y el tráfico de migrantes y las nuevas lógicas de control migratorio en EcuadorRuiz Muriel, Martha CeciliaÁlvarez Velasco, Soledadmigration;governmentality;human trafficking;migrant smuggling;post-neoliberalismMigracionesgubernamentalidadtrata de personastráfico de migrantespost-neoliberalismoFar 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.Lejos de concebir que seguridad y derechos humanos, por un lado, y restricción y protección, por otro, son dos perspectivas excluyentes en el manejo de las migraciones internacionales, este artículo argumenta que ambas se articulan y alimentan mutuamente. Exploramos esta articulación desde los estudios sobre gubernamentalidad, y analizamos las políticas antitrata y antitráfico, centrales en las agendas migratorias regionales e internacionales. Nos enfocamos en el caso de Ecuador durante el gobierno de la “Revolución Ciudadana”. Con base en un estudio etnográfico, mostramos el rol de la trata y el tráfico de migrantes como estrategias de producción de “migraciones riesgosas” y de la “irregularidad migrante”, y como justificativos de medidas excepcionales en coyunturas definidas como “crisis humanitarias”. Concluimos que las políticas migratorias formuladas en el periodo “post-neoliberal” ecuatoriano no son totalmente autónomas ni disidentes, sino funcionales al hegemónico régimen neoliberal de control global de las migraciones.El Colegio de México2019-07-29info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/xmlhttps://estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx/index.php/es/article/view/168610.24201/es.2019v37n111.1686Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México; Vol. 37 No. 111 (2019): Vol. XXXVII, num. 111, September-December, 2019; 689-725Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México; Vol. 37 Núm. 111 (2019): Vol. XXXVII, núm. 111, septiembre-diciembre, 2019; 689-7252448-64420185-4186reponame:Estudios Sociológicosinstname:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICOinstacron:COLMEXspahttps://estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx/index.php/es/article/view/1686/1819https://estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx/index.php/es/article/view/1686/1830Derechos de autor 2019 Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de Méxicoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:oai.estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx:article/16862024-08-19T18:21:04Z |
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Protection under Exclusion: Ecuador’s "War" on Human Trafficking and Migrants Smuggling and its New Logic of Migration Control Excluir para proteger: la "guerra" contra la trata de personas y el tráfico de migrantes y las nuevas lógicas de control migratorio en Ecuador |
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Protection under Exclusion: Ecuador’s "War" on Human Trafficking and Migrants Smuggling and its New Logic of Migration Control |
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Ruiz Muriel, Martha Cecilia Álvarez Velasco, Soledad |
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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. |
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