Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
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description: Migraciones is an interdisciplinary academic journal published by the University Institute for Migration Studies (IUEM) at Comillas Pontifical University. It aims to publish quality research that delves into the study of human mobility in open access, both in Spanish and English, prioritising articles that address critical and current issues by applying the most advanced methodologies. It is published twice a year (January and June). Issue 0 was published in December 1996. The journal Migraciones follows an open-access publication system, whereby both the publication and reading of works are exempt from fees. All published content is fully available for free and immediate consultation and download on the journal's website. Migraciones is indexed Scopus , Latindex, InDICEs CSIC, Emerging Sources Citation Index, and others. First decision in 5 days Acceptance rate of 20,5% Scopus 2024: Q1 in Cultural Studies (201/1371) and Q2 en Demography (56/140)
publisher: Universidad Pontificia Comillas
language: en
publication name: Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
issn: 1138-5774
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items: Loïc Wacquant (2024). Racial domination
items: Survey Research as a Tool for Studying Migration in Latin America
items: Migration, Extractivism, and Necropolitics in the Peruvian Amazon: The Trafficking of Women in Neo-extractive Enclaves
items: On Women’s Shoulders: Care-Based Immobility and Climate Adaptation in Rural Ghana
items: Towards a Politicization and Historicization of “Climate Migration”: A Political Ecology Perspective on Global Mobility under Capitalism
items: Alessandra Galimberti Prince (2025). Arte y diáspora
items: Shifting the Perspective: A Political Ecology of Migration attentive to gendered and racialised inequalities
items: Racialisation, Discrimination, and Ethnic Identity among Spanish Gitanos: The Test of Mixedness
items: Introduction: Towards a Racial Turn in Spanish Scholarship on Migration and Diversity
items: Deconstructing Existing Narratives: A Critical Reassessment of Climate-Driven Migration Dynamics in Africa and Namibia
items: For a Latin American Political Ecology of Climate (Im)mobilities
items: Manufacturing Crisis, Governing Instability: The Political Ecology of Migration, Power, and Ecocide
items: From Adaptive Resilience to the Production of the Common. An Analytical Framework for Rethinking Immobility in the Context of Climate Crisis
items: Framing Climate Mobility: A Discourse Analysis of Spanish Newspapers
items: Climate Finance and the Political Ecology of (Im)Mobility: Displacement Risks in the Low-Carbon Transition
items: Landscapes of Dispossession: Extractivism and Forced Displacement Triggered by Tailings Dams
items: Interconnected Mobilities and Mining Extractivism in Napo Province (Ecuador). A Contribution of the New Mobility Paradigm to Political Ecology
items: Sustainable Housing in Climate and Disaster Vulnerable Contexts: A Comparative Legal and Policy Analysis of Turkey and Germany’s Adaptation and Disaster Response Frameworks
items: The Political Ecology of Water Governance and Migration in Chile
items: Humanitarianism From Below: Values, Practices and Boundaries of an Aid Model. The Case of the Catholic Albergues in Puebla, Mexico
items: Tackling, encouraging or ignoring? The outmigration of transnational domestic care workers on the political agenda in Poland
items: The Impact of Citizen (In)Security and Immigration on Support for Democracy: Observational Evidence from Ecuador (2020-2024)
items: Can We Apply Current Theories on Attitudes to Immigration Developed in the Global North to the Latin American Context?
items: Environmental Crisis and Mobility in Oases Societies of Morocco: The Cases of Imilchil and Merzouga
items: Using international surveys to measure political transnationalism: the civic competencies of the Swiss population residing in Latin America
items: Return to Migrate Again: Reintegration to Uruguay and Re-Emigration of the Uruguayan Population to Spain
items: Transforming Destinations: The Impact of Integration Interventions on the Mobility Decisions of Displaced LGBTIQ+ Persons in Mexico
items: Imaginary Wor(l)ds: A Creative Methodology to Explore Future Imaginaries of Climate Change-Induced (Im)mobilities
items: Rethinking Migrant Masculinities: Pakistani Men in Barcelona
items: Inequalities in Employment by Migratory Origin and Gender: An Analysis of the Spanish Labor Market Based on the 2023 Labor Force Survey

Loïc Wacquant (2024). Racial domination
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subject: Reseñas de libros
  topic: section
creator: Diana Mata-Codesal
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-03-13
publication date: 2026-03-13
starting page: 1
ending page: 4

Survey Research as a Tool for Studying Migration in Latin America
type: item
subject: Presentación
  topic: section
creator: Elena Sánchez-Montijano
creator: Pablo Nicolás Biderbost Moyano
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-29
publication date: 2026-01-29
starting page: 1
ending page: 18
doi: 10.14422/mig.i65.2026

Migration, Extractivism, and Necropolitics in the Peruvian Amazon: The Trafficking of Women in Neo-extractive Enclaves
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description: This article examines migration flows to neoextractivist enclaves within the framework of necropolitics and the political ecology of migration. It explores how degraded territories, shaped by illegal mining, human trafficking, and the sex trade, function as both forces of expulsion and attraction. The theoretical framework integrates concepts of accumulation by dispossession and extractive biopolitics to understand how state control, labor precarization, and violence create differentiated mobility regimes, particularly affecting migrant women. The study focuses on Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon, a region characterized by environmental degradation and territorial control through illicit economies, despite the state's claims of biodiversity protection. Using qualitative methods, including document analysis and interviews with local actors, the research reveals that historical configurations of territorial exploitation influence migration patterns in these enclaves. The article contributes to the political ecology of migration by demonstrating how extractive economies and structural inequalities shape migration flows in necropolitical contexts.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: neo-extractive enclaves
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subject: sexual exploitation
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subject: necropolitics
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creator: Sofía Chacaltana Cortez
creator: Hatsumi Otsu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 25
doi: 10.14422/mig.23441.034

On Women’s Shoulders: Care-Based Immobility and Climate Adaptation in Rural Ghana
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description: This article examines the gendered dynamics of climate-related migration and immobility in rural Ghana, focusing on the Bono and Bono East regions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2022 and 2023, it explores how male out-migration, often framed as an adaptive response to environmental stress, reshapes the gendered distribution of labor, women’s responsibilities, and their opportunities for mobility. The study introduces the concept of care-based immobility as a central analytical contribution. It conceptualizes women’s staying as a socially produced condition rooted in three interrelated domains—economic management, food security, and caregiving. These responsibilities simultaneously anchor women geographically while enabling household and community survival, demonstrating that immobility operates as both a structural constraint and an active strategy of climate adaptation. By integrating feminist political ecology with critical mobility and immobility frameworks, the analysis moves beyond environmentally deterministic narratives of climate migration and situates women’s (im)mobility within relational socio-ecological hierarchies. The article thus underscores the importance of gender-sensitive and locally grounded approaches to climate resilience.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: climate change adaptation
  topic: keywords
subject: care-based immobility
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subject: feminist political ecology
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subject: Ghana
  topic: keywords
subject: women’s agency
  topic: keywords
creator: Mariachiara Boldrini
creator: Valeria Saggiomo
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-03-13
publication date: 2026-03-13
starting page: 1
ending page: 21
doi: 10.14422/mig.23420.012

Towards a Politicization and Historicization of “Climate Migration”: A Political Ecology Perspective on Global Mobility under Capitalism
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description: The climate change discourse that emerged in the 1990s has foregrounded climate-induced migration; yet, terms such as environmental refugee or climate migrant, frequently invoked in public debate, remain undefined within international refugee law, generating legal ambiguities and gaps in protection. This absence is not merely terminological but reflects historical frameworks that excluded ecological considerations from migration governance. Drawing on political ecology, Marxist scholarship, and Moore’s world-ecology approach, this paper critically examines the limitations of climate migration debates when disconnected from the structural dynamics of global capitalism. It situates mobility within the long-term transformation of socio-ecological relations, emphasizing that displacement is both a product and a driver of capitalist expansion, ecological change, and uneven power relations. By framing climate-induced migration within historical and structural processes, the paper highlights the necessity of critically reassessing mobility classifications in light of alarmist and securitarian frameworks and the war regime emerging from the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s military action in Gaza since 2023.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: climate migration
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subject: environmental refugee
  topic: keywords
subject: Capitalocene
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subject: political ecology
  topic: keywords
creator: Arianna Poletti
creator: Gennaro Avallone
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-23
publication date: 2026-02-23
starting page: 1
ending page: 21
doi: 10.14422/mig.23450.005

Alessandra Galimberti Prince (2025). Arte y diáspora
type: item
subject: Reseñas de libros
  topic: section
creator: Gema Gómez Álvaro
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-29
publication date: 2026-01-29
starting page: 1
ending page: 3

Shifting the Perspective: A Political Ecology of Migration attentive to gendered and racialised inequalities
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description: This article argues that in a world where the ecological and material consequences of climate changes are becoming increasingly tangible, mobilisation and reproduction of the dominant categories of economic migration and political asylum become problematic. While the “reflexive turn” in migration studies called for a critical assessment of the use of state-determined migration categories in migration research, the ways in which political ecology could achieve that and related implications for migration studies have been little discussed. This article seeks to uncover the epistemological and political stakes that underpin the study of climate-related migration by foregrounding the venues opened up by political ecology perspectives. The article equally outlines how discussions around climate-related migrations can serve to bridge political ecology perspectives with more established venues within migration studies, notably intersectional approaches to migration, drawing in particular on gender studies as well as analytical engagement with racialised inequalities.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: political ecology
  topic: keywords
subject: intersectionality
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subject: gender
  topic: keywords
subject: race
  topic: keywords
creator: Nina Sahraoui
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-03-13
publication date: 2026-03-13
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.14422/mig.23474.010

Racialisation, Discrimination, and Ethnic Identity among Spanish Gitanos: The Test of Mixedness
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description: In Spain, and in Europe in general, research on racism and racialisation has mostly focused on foreign-born immigrants. Much less attention has been given to national ethnic minorities, in particular to Gitanos (Spanish Roma), the longest-established and largest ethnic minority group in the country, and also one of the most discriminated-against minority groups throughout Spanish history. This article presents research that has applied the study of mixedness (i.e., mixed couples and their descendants), a sociocultural phenomenon that is thought to “dilute” differences and destabilise social boundaries, to investigate the persistence of the social stigmatisation and racialisation of Spanish Roma. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and 81 in-depth interviews with Roma/non-Roma couples, their descendants, and community representatives, this study, shows that even intermarried Gitanos and Spanish-born descendants of Gitano/non-Gitano mixed couples are stigmatised as being outsiders and experience everyday racism, as well as intragroup prejudices, all of which affect their identity choices, social interactions, and everyday lives. The study also concludes that individuals have different strategies for coping with racism and discrimination and that Gitano identity (romanipen) remains dynamic and resilient—strengthened, not weakened—through mixing, a finding that challenges essentialist understandings of ethnic identities and ethnic minority groups.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: Spanish Roma/gitanos
  topic: keywords
subject: intermarriage
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subject: ethnic identity
  topic: keywords
subject: mixed race
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subject: racism
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subject: discrimination
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creator: Dan Rodríguez-García
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
starting page: 1
ending page: 30
doi: 10.14422/mig.22022.021

Introduction: Towards a Racial Turn in Spanish Scholarship on Migration and Diversity
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description: This special issue aims to contribute to the debate on race, racialisation and racism in Spain from a perspective that combines theoretical analysis and empirical studies. We take a systemic understanding of racial relations as our point of departure and focus on the Spanish context. Our objective is twofold: First, we want to challenge a persistent “colour-blindness” and a widely spread silence about race in European societies (Lentin, 2018; Song, 2018; El Tayed, 2021), as well as in Spain (Rodríguez-García, 2022; Rodríguez-García et al., 2021), which has permeated research on migration, diversity, interculturalism and ethnic relations. As Omi and Winant (1994, p. 159) pointed out “opposing racism requires that we notice race [… and] that we afford it the recognition it deserves and the subtlety it embodies.” This will contribute to a deeper understanding of the processes that shape and reconfigure racial categories. Furthermore, it will advance knowledge on the concept of “race” and its intersections with other social categories, such as class, gender, and migration status, highlighting how these intersections fundamentally shape social interactions, power structures, and various forms of inequality. Second, with this special issue we intend to provide a collection of empirically based research about racialisation processes, racial categories and racial relations in the case of Spain. The contributors to this special issue are Spanish and international scholars based in Spain who conduct their research at the forefront of the ongoing “racial turn” in Spanish academia (see, e.g. Hellgren, 2025; Suárez-Navaz & Suárez, 2024; Rodríguez-Reche & Cerchiaro, 2023; Hellgren & Bereményi, 2022; Rodríguez-García, 2022; Hellgren & Gabrielli, 2021). All of the contributors place race, racialisation and racism at the core of migration and minority studies, both in the Spanish context and internationally. This endeavour is necessary to look transversally to the processes of other…
subject: Presentación
  topic: section
subject: Race
  topic: keywords
subject: Racialisation
  topic: keywords
subject: Systemic racism
  topic: keywords
subject: Interculturality
  topic: keywords
subject: National minorities
  topic: keywords
creator: Cristina Rodríguez-Reche
creator: Zenia Hellgren
creator: Lorenzo Gabrielli
creator: Dan Rodríguez-García
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-10-13
publication date: 2025-10-13
doi: 10.14422/mig.y2025.i64

Deconstructing Existing Narratives: A Critical Reassessment of Climate-Driven Migration Dynamics in Africa and Namibia
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description: This paper critically examines dominant narratives of climate and environmental migration in Africa, focusing on Namibia. It highlights the limitations of international definitions, which often frame mobility through crisis and displacement, obscuring local agency and adaptive practices. Drawing on mixed-methods fieldwork (2017-2023) in northern and central Namibia, through interviews, observations, and policy analysis, the study reveals that migration is shaped by the intersection of environmental stressors with socio-economic inequality, gender dynamics, and cultural traditions. In Namibia, seasonal and adaptive mobility patterns challenge deterministic crisis models, instead reflecting community resilience and strategic planning. Literature and policy reviews further show that rigid terms like climate refugee risk oversimplifyng complex drivers of movement. The study calls for a reframing of climate migration as a context-specific, adaptive strategy, and urges inclusive policies that integrate local knowledge and address underlying structural vulnerabilities. Migration should be seen as part of resilience-building, not just emergency response.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: climate migration
  topic: keywords
subject: environmental mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: Namibia
  topic: keywords
subject: agency
  topic: keywords
subject: resilience
  topic: keywords
creator: Bruno Venditto
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
starting page: 1
ending page: 27
doi: 10.14422/mig.22986.028

For a Latin American Political Ecology of Climate (Im)mobilities
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description: Research on the climate change-human mobility nexus remains largely dominated by agendas shaped by the Global North, leading to power inequalities in practices, policies, and knowledge. Critical scholarship has identified political ecology as a valuable framework for addressing these problems. In this paper, we argue that Latin American Political Ecology (LAPE) provides unique insights for addressing this challenge. Drawing on four case studies from the Andes and the Amazon, we explore how LAPE can inform a research agenda on climate (im)mobilities. We identify three areas in which this convergence could be particularly fruitful: the implications of climate (im)mobilities for food sovereignty; the more-than-human character of the communities affected by climate-related hazards; and the role of extractivism in shaping climate (im)mobility in rural areas. We also highlight the prevalence of coloniality of knowledge in climate (im)mobilities governance, reflecting on the positionality of the climate (im)mobilities researchers.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: climate (im)mobilities
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin American political ecology
  topic: keywords
subject: extractivism
  topic: keywords
subject: coloniality
  topic: keywords
subject: indigenous and peasant communities
  topic: keywords
creator: Jorge Enrique Forero
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 22
doi: 10.14422/mig.23528.033

Manufacturing Crisis, Governing Instability: The Political Ecology of Migration, Power, and Ecocide
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description: Human mobility is not an anomaly but a historical constant that has been systematically governed, stratified and racialised. This article reconceptualises the “migration crisis” not as an exceptional event but as a political-ecological crisis regime that manufactures crisis, organises instability and legitimises violence at and beyond borders. Bringing together political ecology, world-ecology, governmentality and debates on racial capitalism, it develops a framework for analysing how war, extractivism, ecocide and climate apartheid produce unliveable environments and stratified regimes of (im)mobility. The argument is operationalised through paradigmatic cases from the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Niger Delta, Gaza, the Kafue basin and architectures of climate apartheid, showing how legal, economic and humanitarian infrastructures manufacture dispossession, immobilisation and selective mobility. By treating crisis as a durable regime rather than an episode, the article links border spectacles to slower forms of environmental and colonial violence and clarifies how migrants’ lives are governed as a managed instability.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: political ecology of migration
  topic: keywords
subject: crisis regime
  topic: keywords
subject: racial capitalism
  topic: keywords
subject: governmentality
  topic: keywords
subject: climate apartheid
  topic: keywords
subject: ecocide
  topic: keywords
subject: (im)mobility
  topic: keywords
creator: Zakaria Sajir
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-23
publication date: 2026-02-23
starting page: 1
ending page: 22
doi: 10.14422/mig.23582.004

From Adaptive Resilience to the Production of the Common. An Analytical Framework for Rethinking Immobility in the Context of Climate Crisis
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description: Within risk studies, resilience has become established as a dominant concept linked to adaptation and defined as the capacity to anticipate, absorb, and recover. However, this framework tends to obscure the structural conditions that produce vulnerability, normalizing precariousness through technocratic discourse. This article critically examines how the notion of resilience is employed in climate mobility studies, advancing toward alternative readings that move beyond the dichotomy presenting migration as agency and immobility as a lack of adaptive capacity. The analysis draws on the case of the Pozo de Flores Association in the Upper Valley of Cochabamba, Bolivia—a community water management initiative led by peasant women. The study adopts a qualitative and situated approach, based on in-depth interviews and participatory mapping. Results demonstrate that voluntary immobility can no longer be understood merely as adaptation or community resilience. Rather, it constitutes a conscious political practice of resistance against the capitalist necrotization of life, rooted in collective strategies for territorial defense and the sustenance of life.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: adaptation
  topic: keywords
subject: resilience
  topic: keywords
subject: voluntary immobility
  topic: keywords
subject: resistance
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subject: production of the common
  topic: keywords
creator: Yolanda Alfaro Aramayo
creator: Mónica Rocha Medina
creator: Huáscar Salazar Lohman
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-03-13
publication date: 2026-03-13
starting page: 1
ending page: 07
doi: 10.14422/mig.23561.008

Framing Climate Mobility: A Discourse Analysis of Spanish Newspapers
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description: In a world increasingly affected by climatic changes, climate mobility has become a topic of growing relevance in the geopolitical context. Spain, as an external border of the European Union with historical ties to regions highly exposed to climate impacts, such as North Africa, offers a critical case study for examining these dynamics. This article applies framing theory to qualitatively analyse how Spanish media construct climate mobility and how both people and spaces are represented. Drawing on 52 articles published between 2021 and 2023 in the six most-read newspapers in Spain, four predominant frames are identified: quantitative-alarmism, securitization, humanitarianism, and vulnerability. Media discourses depict migrants as passive victims or abstract figures, while spaces are portrayed as “in crisis” or “under threat.” Only the vulnerability frame provides a more nuanced perspective by linking exposure to climate change with socio-demographic risks. Yet even here, responsibilities of the Global North remain underdeveloped.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: climate mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: climate change
  topic: keywords
subject: framing theory
  topic: keywords
subject: media
  topic: keywords
subject: Spain
  topic: keywords
creator: Carolina Rebollo-Díaz
creator: Pilar Morales-Giner
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
starting page: 1
ending page: 26
doi: 10.14422/mig.23558.029

Climate Finance and the Political Ecology of (Im)Mobility: Displacement Risks in the Low-Carbon Transition
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description: Climate finance is indispensable to global decarbonisation, yet its distributive effects on human mobility remain under-analysed. Using a qualitative, multi-scalar design, this article links macro patterns of climate-finance flows, meso institutional frameworks, and micro evidence from two emblematic arenas—the Atacama lithium frontier in Chile and the Noor-Ouarzazate solar complex in Morocco. It demonstrates that displacement and immobility risks arise less from technical shortfalls than from financial logics that privilege capital-intensive, debt-based assets and procedural safeguards, which restructure access to water, land and labour and compress local capability sets. The central contribution is to specify the causal mechanisms connecting the financialisation of climate governance to climate-related (im)mobility, integrating political economy, political ecology, and the economics of migration. The article concludes by proposing a shift toward more grant-equivalent adaptation finance, binding benefit-sharing and livelihood-restoration schemes, and performance metrics that incorporate mobility outcomes and hydrosocial costs alongside conventional indicators.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: climate finance
  topic: keywords
subject: climate-induced migration
  topic: keywords
subject: financialisation of climate governance
  topic: keywords
subject: political ecology
  topic: keywords
creator: Paola Crisci
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-23
publication date: 2026-02-23
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.14422/mig.23540.003

Landscapes of Dispossession: Extractivism and Forced Displacement Triggered by Tailings Dams
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description: Historically dependent on mining extractivism, Chile faces escalating socio-environmental conflicts driven by large-scale mining. In this context, tailings dams not only concentrate toxic waste but also generate dynamics of forced displacement that affect human and extrahuman communities. From an ecopolitical perspective and drawing on Actor–Network Theory, this study analyzes the expansion of Minera Los Pelambres’ El Mauro tailings dam—the largest in South America—showing how it reconfigures life landscapes in the Norte Chico. Through critical cartographies, the research participatively reconstructs socio-ecological memories of displacement and latent migration, mapping resistances and reterritorializations in Villa El Mauro, Caimanes, and Pupío. The tailings dam is introduced as an agent of extractive expansion that produces processes of accumulation by dispossession and new forms of displacement and uncertainty associated with reterritorialization in the Capitalocene.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: mining
  topic: keywords
subject: tailing dams
  topic: keywords
subject: forced displacement
  topic: keywords
subject: extractivism
  topic: keywords
subject: socio-ecological conflicts
  topic: keywords
subject: memory
  topic: keywords
creator: Álvaro Mercado Jara
creator: Daniela Cecilia Salgado Cofré
creator: Javiera Pavez Mena
creator: Carla Saavedra Ferrari
creator: José Tapia Díaz
creator: Pablo Mansilla Quiñones
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 29
doi: 10.14422/mig.23402.031

Interconnected Mobilities and Mining Extractivism in Napo Province (Ecuador). A Contribution of the New Mobility Paradigm to Political Ecology
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description: Various studies show that territories dominated by extractive economies have a particular relationship with population movements. However, this is often seen as a side effect, whether in terms of the expulsion of inhabitants or the attraction of workers. Drawing on the dialogue between political ecology and the New Mobility Paradigm, I propose a new perspective in which mobility is not presented as a simple consequence of extractivism. Through ethnographic research conducted in the province of Napo (Ecuadorian Amazon), based on observations in four mining areas, 13 semi-structured interviews, and 11 informal interviews with workers, environmental activists, local authorities, and community leaders, I argue that mobility constitutes and shapes extractivism. Analysing this phenomenon allows for a better understanding of the complex interconnections that are taking place between Napo, other Ecuadorian provinces, and countries in the region, as well as the profound transformation that their territories are undergoing in both physical and social terms.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: extractive economies
  topic: keywords
subject: mining
  topic: keywords
subject: mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: political ecology
  topic: keywords
subject: Ecuadorian Amazon
  topic: keywords
creator: Carmen Gómez Martín
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-03-13
publication date: 2026-03-13
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.14422/mig.23438.013

Sustainable Housing in Climate and Disaster Vulnerable Contexts: A Comparative Legal and Policy Analysis of Turkey and Germany’s Adaptation and Disaster Response Frameworks
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description: This article examines how Germany and Turkey address sustainable refugee and disaster-displaced housing in the context of natural hazards. Using a functional comparative legal methodology, it compares the governance allocation and coordination; housing standards and resilience plans; and the integration of refugee shelters into welfare and disaster framework. The analysis combines doctrinal review with empirical data such as official statistics, surveys, policy reports, and testimonies examining housing stability, resilience and legal protection. The study is anchored in post-disaster housing response for the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake and the 2021 Ahr Valley Floods. Turkey’s centralized governance has reactive approach results in endemic loopholes, subjecting refugees to secondary displacement and insecure housing. Germany’s precautionary and decentralised framework integrates housing within broader welfare regimes. The analysis directs policy suggestions for both countries that emphasize the relevance of joined-up governance and resilient, inclusive shelter systems as a way to properly address compound displacement risks.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: disaster governance
  topic: keywords
subject: climate change
  topic: keywords
subject: refugee housing
  topic: keywords
subject: comparative legal analysis
  topic: keywords
subject: sustainable housing
  topic: keywords
subject: displacement
  topic: keywords
creator: Elnaz Nahavandi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-03-13
publication date: 2026-03-13
starting page: 1
ending page: 22
doi: 10.14422/mig.23414.011

The Political Ecology of Water Governance and Migration in Chile
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description: Rural communities in north-central Chile have faced decades-long conflicts over water resources. Although local socio-environmental dynamics have received considerable attention, the related mobility patterns remain underexplored. This study examines the relationship between drought conditions, water governance arrangements, and internal migration flows to and from the province of Petorca. A mixed-methods approach is employed, integrating long-term precipitation anomalies based on Standardised Precipitation Indices (1983-2019), census-based net migration data (1982-2017), and eight semi-structured interviews with local activists, policymakers, and water management experts. Quantitative findings indicate that intensified drought does not lead to increased out-migration; rather, a negative correlation exists between drought and net migration in the province. Interview data highlight the roles of systemic constraints and place attachment in shaping (im)mobility among rural communities, as well as the influx of external actors associated with agribusiness expansion. The study demonstrates how socio-environmental changes, power inequalities, and resource governance influence mobility outcomes in water-stressed regions.
subject: Estudios
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subject: environmental migration
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subject: rurality
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subject: political ecology
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subject: Chile
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subject: water governance
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creator: Giulia Repetti
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-23
publication date: 2026-02-23
starting page: 1
ending page: 23
doi: 10.14422/mig.23375.007

Humanitarianism From Below: Values, Practices and Boundaries of an Aid Model. The Case of the Catholic Albergues in Puebla, Mexico
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description: This article proposes an ethnographic analysis of the humanitarian model practiced by Catholic albergues (shelters) in Puebla, central Mexico, to aid international migrants in transit as a form of humanitarianism from below. This model of aid, which brings together faith and social commitment, takes shape and consolidates itself in a specific historical and political trajectory of humanitarianism committed to aiding migrants in Mexico. This shapes the values, practices and the framework of political relations that the shelters establish with other actors. Building on this analysis, I examine the process through which the boundaries of this model are constructed—boundaries that are essential both for safeguarding its integrity against external pressure and for asserting claims regarding the state’s responsibility toward migrants. To this end, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork between 2019 and 2022 with different humanitarian actors dedicated to aiding migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Puebla.
subject: Estudios
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subject: humanitarianism
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subject: migration
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subject: Mexico
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subject: albergues
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creator: Valentina Benincasa
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-23
publication date: 2026-02-23
starting page: 1
ending page: 21
doi: 10.14422/mig.23363.002

Tackling, encouraging or ignoring? The outmigration of transnational domestic care workers on the political agenda in Poland
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description: Although the topic of attracting EU mobile workers to transnational care sectors has received considerable attention, the perspective of sending countries, particularly with regard to policies concerning the departure of care workers, has not yet been analysed empirically or theoretically. This article aims to address this gap by tracing the agenda-setting process regarding the temporary outmigration of workers from Poland to the care sector abroad between 2004 and 2019. Drawing on qualitative empirical material in the form of 60 expert interviews, the article is framed by Kingdon's (1995) multiple streams model. The analysis confirmed that the mobility of Polish workers in the home care sector was not on the political agenda prior to the pandemic. Key stakeholders in addressing this phenomenon as both an opportunity and a challenge, and in proposing administrative solutions, are care agencies that send workers, and associations representing the interests of the care industry in Poland.
subject: Estudios
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subject: transnational care work
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subject: emigration
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subject: Poland
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subject: intra-EU mobility
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subject: intermediaries
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subject: agenda-setting
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subject: migration policy and politics
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creator: Kamil Matuszczyk
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-11-25
publication date: 2025-11-25
doi: 10.14422/mig.23092.024

The Impact of Citizen (In)Security and Immigration on Support for Democracy: Observational Evidence from Ecuador (2020-2024)
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description: In Latin America, although the impact of contextual determinants on democratic disaffection has been investigated, the nexus between anti-immigrant attitudes, perceptions of citizen (in)security, and support for democracy has not been systematically examined. The goal of this article, therefore, is to contribute to filling this gap through an analysis of the Ecuadorian case—a country marked by institutional crises and a massive inflow of immigrants. The study relies on data from the Latinobarómetro (2020 and 2023, N=1200 each) and post-stratified online surveys (2021 and 2024, N=1289 and N=597). The methodological approach combines Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regressions and Structural Equation Models (SEM) in order to identify both direct effects and relationships among latent variables. The findings indicate that perceived victimization has a limited impact, whereas punitive attitudes and pluralism are positively associated with support for democracy. By contrast, immigration does not exert significant direct effects, although it is linked to perceptions of security and institutional trust.
subject: Special Issues
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subject: immigration
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subject: democracy
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subject: citizen security
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subject: public opinion
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subject: Ecuador
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creator: Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero
creator: Diego Alejandro Casas-Ramírez
creator: Leticia Orcés Pareja
creator: Alejandro García Borja
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.14422/mig.23031.001

Can We Apply Current Theories on Attitudes to Immigration Developed in the Global North to the Latin American Context?
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description: Migration within the Global South is as significant as that to the North, yet most studies on immigration attitudes remain Northern-centered. This limits our understanding of how receiving contexts shape public perceptions. While the Global North receives culturally distinct migrants, Latin America experiences intra-regional flows characterized by cultural similarity, inequality, and limited state capacity. This article tests ethe conditional applicability of realistic competition theories to the Latin American context by analyzing attitudes toward Venezuelan immigrants in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru using OLS regression models based on Latinobarómetro2020 data. Results show that perceptions of fiscal and distributive competition are the strongest predictors of immigration attitudes, followed by perceptions of job competition, whereas individual characteristics have weaker effects. In contexts of inequality and institutional scarcity, competition is understood primarily as a struggle over public resources rather than a cultural threat, underscoring the need to contextualize Northern theories in Global South settings.
subject: Special Issues
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subject: Venezuelan migration
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subject: immigration attitudes
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subject: survey
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subject: South America
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creator: Alejandra Zuleta Buschmann
creator: Cristián Doña-Reveco
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.14422/mig.22989.026

Environmental Crisis and Mobility in Oases Societies of Morocco: The Cases of Imilchil and Merzouga
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description: The oases of Morocco have undergone profound socio-environmental transformations in recent decades that have affected their ways of life and their economies, impacting especially the culture of nomadism and increasing the weight of other forms of mobility such as tourism and migration. To address these changes, this article adopts an ethnographic approach, employing fieldwork and using observation and interviews as its primary techniques. The towns of Imilchil (a mountain oasis in the Eastern High Atlas) and Merzouga (a desert oasis in the Ziz Valley) were selected for study based on their shared nomadic past and the increasing presence of tourism and migration. The research findings demonstrate how the combination of new and old forms of mobility and immobility forms part of attempts to adapt to changing environmental and climatic conditions, as well as part of the essential role of the state and its policies.
subject: Estudios
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subject: climate change
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subject: political ecology
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subject: migration
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subject: Morocco
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subject: nomadism
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subject: tourism
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creator: Joan Lacomba
creator: María Jesús Berlanga Adell
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-23
publication date: 2026-02-23
starting page: 1
ending page: 19
doi: 10.14422/mig.22971.006

Using international surveys to measure political transnationalism: the civic competencies of the Swiss population residing in Latin America
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description: This article quantitatively analyses political transnationalism among Swiss citizens in Latin America through civic competence indicators. Using multivariate techniques (OVERALS and HJ-Biplot), it explores the links between sociodemographic and migratory variables and political behavior. The findings of a sample of 539 valid responses reveal a strong civic predisposition but limited electoral engagement, partially supporting the political exposure theory. We proposed a political transnationalism index as a metric to assess diasporic engagement from Global North expatriates in Southern contexts.
subject: Special Issues
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subject: political transnationalism
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subject: civic competences
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subject: Swiss diaspora
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subject: multivariate analysis
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creator: Pablo Biderbost
creator: Guillermo Boscan Carrasquero
creator: Nerea González García
creator: Ana Nieto Librero
creator: Maria da Luz Ramos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 31
doi: 10.14422/mig.22968.025

Return to Migrate Again: Reintegration to Uruguay and Re-Emigration of the Uruguayan Population to Spain
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description: This article examines the relationship between the processes of reintegration of migrants in their country of origin and the decision to return to emigrate after their return, taking Spain and Uruguay as contexts of (re)emigration and return respectively. Through 27 multisite semi-structured qualitative interviews with people who experienced return migration from Spain to Uruguay, it concludes that remigrations to Spain after the return migration are associated with a combination of difficulties of economic and social reintegration with a more favorable structural assessment of living conditions in the Iberian country. The analysis shows how citizen insecurity, absent in initial migration, is incorporated as a decisive factor in recent remigrations. It is argued that reintegration processes are dynamic, reversible and mediated by unfavorable return contexts, which questions the effectiveness of current policies.
subject: Estudios
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subject: return migration
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subject: reintegration
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subject: remigration
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subject: Spain
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subject: Uruguay
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creator: Martín Koolhaas Gandós
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 23
doi: 10.14422/mig.22829.022

Transforming Destinations: The Impact of Integration Interventions on the Mobility Decisions of Displaced LGBTIQ+ Persons in Mexico
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description: This article explores the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced persons in (transit through) Mexico, examining how they decide whether to stay or move on, and how civil society organizations (CSOs) shape those decisions. Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico, this article analyzes three intertwined dimensions: the specific vulnerabilities shaping LGBTIQ+ migration; the role of CSOs in reshaping agency and future planning; and Mexico’s evolving role in the regional migration landscape. The article critiques deterrence-based migration governance and highlights the emotional and bureaucratic complexities LGBTIQ+ migrants face, caught between transnational border regimes and local systemic violence. Conceptually, it challenges traditional ideas of destination, intention, and agency in migration trajectories, framing Mexico as a site of “forced immobility,” where decisions emerge from structural coercion, not choice. The article challenges linear migration models and calls for inclusive, person-centered integration efforts rooted in resilience and belonging rather than deterrence.
subject: Estudios
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subject: LGBTIQ+ displaced persons
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subject: transit migration
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subject: integration
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subject: mexico
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subject: country of forced immobility
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creator: Ester Serra Mingot
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-04
publication date: 2025-11-04
doi: 10.14422/mig.22857.018

Imaginary Wor(l)ds: A Creative Methodology to Explore Future Imaginaries of Climate Change-Induced (Im)mobilities
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description: In recent decades, migration and climate change have emerged as two of the most urgent moral and political challenges confronting the twenty-first century. Predominantly portrayed in mainstream media and political discourse within the Global North as exceptional and extraordinary phenomena, the intersection of migration and climate change is increasingly framed through securitization narratives. This article critically examines the social imaginaries surrounding climate change-induced (im)mobilities, with particular attention to the extent to which these narratives are articulated in terms of justice. Empirically, the study draws on a corpus of 78 fictional stories produced by academics, media professionals, and activists, collected via the “Imaginary wor(l)ds” method during participatory seminars. This creative, practice-led methodology invited participants to collaboratively imagine and narrate future scenarios of climate (im)mobilities, aiming to bridge academic research with public engagement and foster new imaginaries through collective storytelling. The approach is grounded in the recognition that creative writing can disrupt dominant knowledge systems and open discursive space for alternative interpretations. The aim was to reflect on whether an effective collaboration between science, media, and activism might generate counter-narratives for climate (im)mobilities. The stories were analyzed using a typology of frames—victims, security threats, adaptive agents, and political subjects—to identify recurring patterns and the extent to which justice-oriented perspectives emerge. By integrating insights from mobility justice and climate justice frameworks, the study opens a path on how creative, participatory methodologies can reframe public and policy discourses on climate migration, foregrounding justice-oriented approaches over securitized paradigms. The article concludes by underscoring the importance of decolonial and intersectional perspectives in shaping fu…
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: narratives
  topic: keywords
subject: frames
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subject: climate crisis
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subject: (im)mobilities
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subject: social imaginaries
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creator: Elena Giacomelli
creator: Stefania Peca
creator: Pierluigi Musarò
creator: Paola Parmiggiani
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 23
doi: 10.14422/mig.22812.023

Rethinking Migrant Masculinities: Pakistani Men in Barcelona
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description: This article presents ongoing findings from a research project on the migration experiences of Pakistani men in Barcelona, focusing on the transformations and continuities in the construction of masculinities. Based on a qualitative approach, the study combines participant observation with 24 semi-structured interviews conducted between 2022 and 2024 with Pakistani men and women from the community. Preliminary results reveal, on the one hand, the persistence of the breadwinner mandate as a central axis of masculine identity; and on the other, the emergence of everyday practices that reflect more flexible and context-specific forms of masculinity. Furthermore, the migratory journey is often narrated as a personal sacrifice that reinforces symbolic validation of manhood. This article contributes to the fields of gender and migration studies by shedding light on the complex identity reconfiguration processes faced by male migrants in transnational contexts shaped by structural inequalities.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: Masculinity
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subject: Pakistanis
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subject: migration
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subject: Barcelona
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creator: Casandra Hojman
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-10-20
publication date: 2025-10-20
starting page: 1
ending page: 21
doi: 10.14422/mig.22447.019

Inequalities in Employment by Migratory Origin and Gender: An Analysis of the Spanish Labor Market Based on the 2023 Labor Force Survey
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description: This paper analyzes the impact of migratory origin on situation of immigrants in the Spanish labor market, considering the length of residence. In addition, it explores to what extent the effect of origin is affected by gender. The study uses data for the year 2023 from the Spanish Labor Force Survey. The results obtained by estimating binary logistic regression models show the inequalities marked by these two factors -and their interaction- in different labor dimensions. The probability of not working in some groups is lower than that of natives, but this does not translate into a better position in the labor market. The generalized situation of non-EU immigrants is marked by employment in low-skilled jobs and the prevalence of temporary contracts. In addition, immigrant women are more exposed to unfavorable conditions and this vulnerability varies according to origin.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: gender
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subject: migration
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subject: employment
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subject: labor market segmentation
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subject: temporary employment
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creator: Ana Patricia Crespo-Rodríguez
creator: Alba Teresa González-Esteban
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
doi: 10.14422/mig.22356.017