“Mobility” and “migration”, first issues: the example of Venezuelan immigrants crossing the borders of Ecuador

Abstract

Faced with the accelerated increase in migration, agencies and institutions have been concerned with dealing with the situation through public control policies, guided by a rhetorical discourse on peace and social security. The migrant, and in general the human mobility phenomenon, are analyzed under a nationalist and state methodological framework; The academic field supports and reproduces these discourses, moving away from making an analysis from the complexity of what that displacement means for subjects, and that it is limited to present true alternatives of life for people. These visualizations become straitjackets that provide immediate responses to immediate needs, but that in the long run they become unsustainable for both society and governments. This work seeks to emphasize the mechanisms and discourses through which the migrant is controlled, managed, violent and categorized, and to question the normalization of these violent strategies, which limit freedom and the basic right to search for better living conditions. Faced with this, there is an urgency to look again at the concepts with which we refer to and categorize subjects.