Abstract
This chapter discusses socioracial hierarchies and sociopolitical reactions to specific groups of migrants and refugees in Latin America. It argues that socioracial hierarchies are fluid and context-dependent, working by ranking individuals and groups based on their perceived physical and socioeconomic characteristics. First, the chapter examines the broader system of socioracial relations in Latin America in which ethno-racial groups occupy different political, economic, and cultural power ranks. It then theorizes that the role of socio-racial discrimination as a conditioning factor for the reception of forcibly displaced populations in the context of immigration and refugee policies in the region is a product of both racialization and the process of class-based categorization. In conclusion, the chapter uses Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory to examine the paradoxical liberalization of immigration and refugee policies in the region and the cases of so-called extracontinental immigration of Haitians and Africans to Argentina and Brazil and of Venezuelan displacement to Peru.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Immigrant lives |
Subtitle of host publication | Intersectionality, transnationality, and global perspectives |
Editors | Edward Shizha, Edward Makwarimba |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 371–386 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-19-768733-8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-19-768730-7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2023 |
Keywords
- Asylum seekers
- Ecological systems theory
- EDI
- Immigrants
- Intersectionality
- Migration
- Transnational identities
- Transnationalism
- Settlement
- Integration