Regímenes de in/movilidad y crisis migratoria en la ruta canaria

  1. IGNACIO FRADEJAS-GARCÍA 1
  2. KRISTÍN LOFTSDÓTTIR 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Islandia
Journal:
Perifèria: revista de investigación y formación en antropología

ISSN: 1885-8996

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 28

Issue: 2

Pages: 146-176

Type: Article

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Abstract

In this article, we analyse the im/mobility regimes produced in the Canary Islands in response to an increase in the unauthorised arrival of migrants by sea from West Africa between 2018 and 2023. In 2020,itwas categorised as a "migration crisis", and the Spanish government, in agreement with the European Union, tried to immobilize these people in the Canary Islands, contravening the rules that allow free mobility in Spain and the Schengen area. The lack of coordination of the reception system, the deficiency of facilities and protocols, as well as the exceptional immobility measures taken during the pandemic, have had profound effects on how the mobility and immobility of these migrants have been regulated in practice.Analysing this so-called "migration crisis", we identify five regimes of immobility —exceptional, humanitarian, racist, bureaucratic and carceral—that operate within a European im/mobility regime that increases the precariousness of unauthorised migrants in connection with their origin, race, gender, religion and social class, pushing them to greater risks in their journeys, immobilising them in their transits and frightening them with deportation.

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