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Discerning networks: Distortions of human movement in Urabá, Colombia
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Colombian region of Urabá, that borders Panama, has gained notoriety for the transit of people moving from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean to North America. Using an ethnographic approach, this article examines how the accounts of local bureaucrats and ot...
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description | Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Colombian region of Urabá, that borders Panama, has gained notoriety for the transit of people moving from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean to North America. Using an ethnographic approach, this article examines how the accounts of local bureaucrats and other actors in the region frame these movements within the influence of “redes,” that is, networks, a vague reference to the hold illegal armed actors and smugglers have over the region. We argue that redes works as a placeholder that simplifies the complexities around these types of migration and gives the phenomenon distorted contours which ignore the agency of people on‐the‐move. We contrast local accounts of the criminal influence over these movements to those of the travelers themselves who describe a variety of interactions along their journeys, but do not mention networks of this kind.
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Desde el inicio del siglo XXI, la región colombiana de Urabá, fronteriza con Panamá, ha ganado notoriedad por el tránsito de personas que se desplazan desde Asia, África y el Caribe hacia Norteamérica. Utilizando un enfoque etnográfico, este artículo examina cómo los relatos de los funcionarios locales y otros actores de la región enmarcan estos movimientos dentro de la influencia de las “redes”, una referencia imprecisa al control que los actores armados ilegales y los contrabandistas ejercen sobre la región. Nuestro argumento es que las redes funcionan como un significante vacío que simplifica las complejidades en torno a estos tipos de migración y da al fenómeno contornos distorsionados que ignoran la agencia de las personas en movimiento. Contrastamos los relatos locales sobre la influencia criminal en estos movimientos con aquellos de los propios viajeros, que describen diversas interacciones a lo largo de sus viajes, pero no mencionan redes de este tipo. |
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