{"title":"Introduction: Venezuelan Migrations, Journeys, and Trajectories across the Americas","authors":"Esteban Devis-Amaya, Mauricio Palma-Gutiérrez","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.12.si.001.000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.12.si.001.000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"163 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140778899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pablo Biderbost, G. Carrasquero, Raquel López Garrido, María Elisa Núñez Brina
{"title":"Intra-Latin American Brain Drain Patterns: Speech, Political Action, Statistics, and Testimonies of Labor Market Insertion of the Venezuelan Population in Argentina","authors":"Pablo Biderbost, G. Carrasquero, Raquel López Garrido, María Elisa Núñez Brina","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.12.si.001.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.12.si.001.005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Brain drain is known as the phenomenon in which people with knowledge or technical skills migrate to another country. Nowadays, brain drain is one of the most common forms of migration. Latin American countries are not exempt from this type of migration. Thus, in this article, we will investigate this phenomenon through the study and collection of data on Venezuelan people who migrate to Argentina, identifying the trends, characteristics, and situations in which the brain drain takes place.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"36 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140790459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approaching Venezuelan Migration from the Borderland: Dynamics and Identity in La Guajira, Colombia","authors":"Dalton Price","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.11.si.001.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.11.si.001.003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Based on an ethnography in the Colombian border state of La Guajira, this article argues that ethnographic research can challenge defaults to methodological nationalism, stark binaries be-tween host and migrant communities, and a framing of Venezuelan migration that flattens the complex realities of individuals in these borderlands who have extensive ties between both Colombia and Venezuela. This article begins by characterizing this border region, describing the relevant history of La Guajira and contemporary dynamics that help situate this specific Venezuelan migration flow. After, I describe the complex identities that form in these borderlands and what exactly “Venezuelan” looks like in this state. Lastly, building on the characterization of the borderland and Venezuelan identity in La Guajira, I offer two examples of how these pieces come together to facilitate certain social interactions and explain migrant experiences.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"38 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140771391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inserción laboral de migrantes y refugiados venezolanos en Uruguay antes y durante el Covid-19","authors":"S. Facal","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.12.si.001.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.12.si.001.006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Desde los últimos años del tercer mandato de Hugo Chávez la República Bolivariana de Venezuela se encuentra atravesando una profunda crisis política, económica y social, la cual ha provocado una salida masiva de población venezolana hacia el exterior recrudecida por la crisis sanitaria del Covid-19. Uruguay, con una política migratoria flexible, se ha convertido en un destino ventajoso a la hora de obtener la documentación necesaria para residir y trabajar en igualdad de condiciones con la población nacional. El acceso al mercado laboral se ha tornado en la principal meta de estos migrantes y refugiados ya que este les permite acceder a la vivienda, la salud y al sistema financiero. Su acceso presenta particularidades vinculadas a las necesidades del mercado laboral uruguayo y a la calificación presentada por los migrantes y refugiados, analizada desde una perspectiva teórica por teorías como la de los mercados duales. En este artículo presentamos los resultados obtenidos de una investigación mixta realizada, entre 2018 y 2022, sobre la experiencia migratoria laboral de los migrantes y refugiados venezolanos en Uruguay.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"313 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140792045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La ayuda humanitaria como remesas políticas en las trayectorias migratorias de empresarios venezolanos radicados en Bogotá","authors":"M. Medina, Santiago Castillo Sepúlveda","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.12.si.001.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.12.si.001.004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 El artículo aborda las trayectorias migratorias de sectores empresariales de Venezuela radicados en Bogotá, con el fin de analizar el lugar que ocupa la acción humanitaria en estas trayectorias, y examinando las estrategias de inmigración en el lugar de destino. En particular, evalúa la ayuda humanitaria como estrategia de reproducción social, y su relación con la noción de transnacionalismo político, identificando su papel en una inserción “por arriba” en Colombia. Se plantea que la acción humanitaria adquiere el carácter de “remesas políticas”, en el marco de una estructura de relaciones que involucra el origen y el destino; así como su función en la difusión de mensajes e influenciadas por la posición social de estos sectores y su posición política. La metodología comprende análisis de 18 entrevistas a profundidad con personas pertenecientes a sectores empresariales que emigraron en el periodo 1990-2019, y el uso de las trayectorias migratorias como herramienta de análisis.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"81 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140770886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racialized Overlaps & Indigenous Eclipses on O'odham Land: U.S. Settler Militarism & Policing of the U.S.–Mexico Settler Colonial/Imperial Border","authors":"R. Madrigal","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2024.01.or.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2024.01.or.009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 By centering Indigeneity, specifically O'odham presence, sovereignty, and land at the site of the U.S.–Mexico border, I argue that the U.S.–Mexico border, the Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. immigration law are ongoing, settler colonial, and imperial formations of U.S. empire. Further, this paper investigates the settler process of racialization, specifically the construction of “illegal alien,” and how, at the border, this racial category is imposed onto, and erases, Indigeneity. I argue that while racialization at the border focuses on criminalizing illegal crossings, it also eliminates Indigenous ontologies of migrants and immigrants, and eclipse land-based Indigenous presence and sovereignty. Through content and discourse analysis, and archival research, I critically read O'odham Indigenous critique of the border and immigration policies against U.S. government documents to show that the settler racialization process of undocumented border crossings is foundationally one of Indigenous erasure and genocide. The aim of this paper is to broaden the scope of critique via an analytic of Indigeneity in the realms of the academy, advocacy work, organizing, activism as related to the U.S.–Mexico border and U.S. immigration.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"87 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140452212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Desired’ and ‘Undesired’ Venezuelan Migrants. Discrimination and Differentiation within the Diaspora","authors":"Esteban Devis-Amaya","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.10.si.001.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.10.si.001.001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Host societies have several parameters to designate what they consider ‘good’ or ‘desirable’ migrants, compared to ‘bad’ or ‘undesirable’ migrants. Both governments and societies promote these parameters using laws and regulations, such as a points system of immigration; or by exalting or criticizing certain attitudes, conditions, and behaviors, such as praising or even expecting fluency in the host country language. This paper focuses on how the Venezuelan migrants position themselves, and others, within this idea of being ‘desired’ and ‘undesired’ migrants, within the context of Bogotá, Colombia. Using theories of ‘aporophobia’ and ‘pigmentocracy’ as analytical approaches, it discusses how migrants categorize themselves and others, and how they differentiate themselves from those they consider ‘bad’ or less desirable. The paper draws from interviews that took place before the Covid-19 pandemic and analyses how ‘othering’ takes place within migrant communities.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"1 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139885303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Desired’ and ‘Undesired’ Venezuelan Migrants. Discrimination and Differentiation within the Diaspora","authors":"Esteban Devis-Amaya","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.10.si.001.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.10.si.001.001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Host societies have several parameters to designate what they consider ‘good’ or ‘desirable’ migrants, compared to ‘bad’ or ‘undesirable’ migrants. Both governments and societies promote these parameters using laws and regulations, such as a points system of immigration; or by exalting or criticizing certain attitudes, conditions, and behaviors, such as praising or even expecting fluency in the host country language. This paper focuses on how the Venezuelan migrants position themselves, and others, within this idea of being ‘desired’ and ‘undesired’ migrants, within the context of Bogotá, Colombia. Using theories of ‘aporophobia’ and ‘pigmentocracy’ as analytical approaches, it discusses how migrants categorize themselves and others, and how they differentiate themselves from those they consider ‘bad’ or less desirable. The paper draws from interviews that took place before the Covid-19 pandemic and analyses how ‘othering’ takes place within migrant communities.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"1044 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139825570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Migrants are citizens too!”: Everyday acts of citizenship and the lived experiences of Venezuelans across the Andes","authors":"Mauricio Palma-Gutiérrez","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.10.si.001.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.10.si.001.002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Amid one of the largest ongoing cross-border migration processes in the world, Venezuelans living across the Andes are often categorized as non-citizens by the governments of the countries they reside in. Full access to their rights is limited by dominant legal technologies of population governance, centered on positioning individuals as subjects in/of nation-states, under different political/juridical statuses instrumental to consolidate objectives of ‘migration management’. Yet, by embracing diverse, and meaningful acts of citizenship, many have found creative ways to perform citizenship in countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile; allowing them access to some rights that otherwise could not be effectively claimed. In this article, I use 23 interviews with migration activists in these four countries to explore the formation of a specific form of political subjectivity in the case of Venezuelans, through the dual lens of acts of citizenship and of performative citizenship. I argue that in absence of an equivalent legal status, quotidian actions derived from different productive and creative acts are essential in enabling a disruptive form of lived citizenship across an alternative, evolving space for politics in the Andean region.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"265 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140473803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“My Mother is My Homeland”: Subversive Representations of the Black Puerto Rican Matriarch in Mayra Santos-Febres’ Our Lady of the Night/Nuestra Señora de la noche (2006) and Amina Gautier’s Now We Will Be Happy (2014)","authors":"Jennifer Maritza McCauley","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.06.or.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.06.or.006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this scholarly essay, I explore how Mayra Santos-Febres and Amina Gautier create subversive representations of Black Puerto Rican women in their texts, and how both writers expand representations of the Black matriarch and nationhood. I also argue that both writers evoke problematic Black motherhood tropes to dismantle them. Mayra Santos Febres fictionalizes Isabel Luberza or “Isabel La Negra” to create a new, complicated mother of Puerto Rico who escews stereotypes and has agency and self-possession. Santos-Febres thus reclaims the stories of obscured Black Caribbean women like Isabel La Negra as her own and creates new national narratives. Gautier uses absent Black American mothers married to Puerto Rican men to show the nececssity of Black women in American and Caribbean spaces. Gautier explores the ramifications of the loss of the Black mother on the Puerto Rican family, and the myth of a true Puerto Rican motherland. I also argue that writing about the erasure of Black women as a Black woman is a kind of subversive act itself, as the Black woman’s narrative stands in as a societal mirror. Both writers show how these complex “fictional mothers” can serve as “fictive kin” to Black women searching for radical sites of home.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127180744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}