The Age of Migration Crisis

A era da crise migratória

Abstract:

The article analyzes the historical changes in the formulation of migration policies between the 19^th and 21^st centuries, summarizing the emergency of an “age of migration crisis”. The first section discusses why international migration poses a destabilizing problem for the Nation-state political conceptions. The second section emphasizes the intrinsic articulation of the global changes in human mobility and their political governance between the 19^th and 20^th centuries, identifying the four prevailing political paradigms on migrant cultural diversity that shaped public policies in the 20^th century. The third and fourth sections deal with the emergence of the fifth cycle of international migration policies, which is characterized by the generalization of a global discourse that criminalizes migrants and refugees. The above will be followed by a critical perspective of the way migration has been treated in some Latin American countries.

Keywords:
Migration; Policies; Nation-state; Latin America