Migrations: mapping and embodying migration practices
Given the (unequal) distribution of migrations and the increased availability of data in this regard, actors who hold greater resources of material, institutional, symbolic, and discursive powers monopolize the disposition of this data and the construction of frameworks for migrations. Consequently, meanings are standardized, such as that of threat, crisis, and tragedy that affect regions apparently vulnerable to the phenomenon, and the migrant landscapes are homogenized, establishing the reasons for migrating, the routes traveled, and the strategies to depart and arrive. The field of critical cartographies, in addition to making visible the various migrant landscapes, also collaborates to innovate the exercise of building multi-layer maps, in which migrant’s memories, their understanding of the crossing, their point of view, and their movement over (im)possible and (in)visible borders and landscapes are present. The counter-cartographies thus intend to give center stage to the migrants’ experiences in their displacements, embodying these walkscapes.
Keywords: Critical Cartographies; Migrations; Landscapes; Mapping.
The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2023.
To stimulate a critical cartographic debate of human mobility in its various aspects (internally displaced persons, migrants, refugees, outcasts, uprooted, exiled, expelled, nomads), the following axes guide this dossier:
- Spaces, instruments, and policies of migrant exhaustion: camps and shelters as an extension of the refuge and the (re)creation of traffic spaces of violence(s);
- Violence, arbitrariness, and subversion of borders in the migrant landscape: visualities, bodily experiences and power of the migrant resistance;
- Claiming migrant and migrations landscapes based on Global South approaches: decolonial, post-colonial views and other non-classical theoretical perspectives;
- Migration control policies and their different visualities: revisiting the role of actors and institutions in the face of unequal mobility.
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