{"title":"Routes to the First World: Brazilian migration journeys after the September 11 attacks","authors":"Gustavo Dias","doi":"10.1590/3811024/2023","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines how Brazilians remodeled their international migration routes to the “First World” after the September 11 attacks. It explores the connections between the temporary suspension of Brazilian migration to the United States and the rise of the United Kingdom as the main destination. To shed light on the production of new routes by Brazilians, the paper unfolds personal migration journeys performed to overcome border controls set by the UK. The empirical data at the basis of this article come from a broadly qualitative, ethnographic approach, which comprised multi-sited fieldwork in the UK and Brazil, and two sets of oral histories conducted with migrants, travel agents, and returned migrants between 2010 and 2016. Based on these sources, the article shows how migrants developed tactical border crossing movements to negotiate with institutions and structures of power that control and constrain their movements with threats.","PeriodicalId":35414,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1590/3811024/2023","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This paper examines how Brazilians remodeled their international migration routes to the “First World” after the September 11 attacks. It explores the connections between the temporary suspension of Brazilian migration to the United States and the rise of the United Kingdom as the main destination. To shed light on the production of new routes by Brazilians, the paper unfolds personal migration journeys performed to overcome border controls set by the UK. The empirical data at the basis of this article come from a broadly qualitative, ethnographic approach, which comprised multi-sited fieldwork in the UK and Brazil, and two sets of oral histories conducted with migrants, travel agents, and returned migrants between 2010 and 2016. Based on these sources, the article shows how migrants developed tactical border crossing movements to negotiate with institutions and structures of power that control and constrain their movements with threats.
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Editada por primeira vez em 1986, nove anos depois da fundação da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais (Anpocs), a Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (RBCS) consolidou-se ou longo dos anos como um dos periódicos mais importantes de veiculação da produção científica de ponta nas três grandes áreas das ciências sociais (antropologia, sociologia e ciência política). É um periódico multidisciplinar no campo das ciências humanas que segue uma definição estrita de multidisciplinaridade, privilegiando contribuições substantivas em seu campo. Ocasionalmente, acolhe artigos oriundos de outras áreas, quando claramente dedicados a travar interlocução com a produção de conhecimento nas ciências sociais. Publicada ininterruptamente durante todos esses anos, nasceu e desenvolveu seu perfil editorial ao longo do tempo como periódico da Anpocs. A partir do número 90, publicado em fevereiro de 2016, passou a circular apenas em formato digital. Os artigos da revista se encontram disponíveis, em acesso aberto, tanto no SciELO quanto na página institucional da Anpocs, no canal Publicações, bem como em algumas redes acadêmicas.