Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin America
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Resumo: | Abstract This paper examines how Haitian migration connecting Haiti to Brasília is enacted through Latin America. The empirical data come from an ethnographic study of Haitians in Brasilia. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with 34 migrants to reconstruct their mobilities. We explore how the Haitians’ historical practice of living on the move has enabled them to deal with border controls and develop tactics to circulate through several Latin America countries, including Brazil. We argue that their migration to the Brazilian capital can neither be understood as a linear movement characterized by an established Haiti-Brasilia connection nor defined as movement to a place where these migrants attempt to settle down. Rather, we show that the recent presence of Brasilia in the mobility of these Haitians has to be understood in the context of a vast dynamic meshwork of places, people and information. |
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Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin AmericaHaitiansmobile peopleBrasíliaLatin AmericaAbstract This paper examines how Haitian migration connecting Haiti to Brasília is enacted through Latin America. The empirical data come from an ethnographic study of Haitians in Brasilia. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with 34 migrants to reconstruct their mobilities. We explore how the Haitians’ historical practice of living on the move has enabled them to deal with border controls and develop tactics to circulate through several Latin America countries, including Brazil. We argue that their migration to the Brazilian capital can neither be understood as a linear movement characterized by an established Haiti-Brasilia connection nor defined as movement to a place where these migrants attempt to settle down. Rather, we show that the recent presence of Brasilia in the mobility of these Haitians has to be understood in the context of a vast dynamic meshwork of places, people and information.Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA)2020-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412020000100504Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology v.17 2020reponame:Vibrantinstname:Associação Brasileira de Antropologiainstacron:ABA10.1590/1809-43412020v17d504info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessDias,GustavoSilva,João Carlos JarochinskiSilva,Sidney Antonio daeng2020-09-29T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1809-43412020000100504Revistahttp://www.vibrant.org.br/https://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpvibrant.aba@gmail.com1809-43411809-4341opendoar:2020-09-29T00:00Vibrant - Associação Brasileira de Antropologiafalse |
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Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin America |
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Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin America |
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Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin America Dias,Gustavo Haitians mobile people Brasília Latin America |
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Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin America |
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Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin America |
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Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin America |
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Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin America |
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Travellers of the Caribbean: Positioning Brasília in Haitian migration routes through Latin America |
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Dias,Gustavo |
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Dias,Gustavo Silva,João Carlos Jarochinski Silva,Sidney Antonio da |
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Silva,João Carlos Jarochinski Silva,Sidney Antonio da |
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Dias,Gustavo Silva,João Carlos Jarochinski Silva,Sidney Antonio da |
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Haitians mobile people Brasília Latin America |
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Haitians mobile people Brasília Latin America |
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Abstract This paper examines how Haitian migration connecting Haiti to Brasília is enacted through Latin America. The empirical data come from an ethnographic study of Haitians in Brasilia. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with 34 migrants to reconstruct their mobilities. We explore how the Haitians’ historical practice of living on the move has enabled them to deal with border controls and develop tactics to circulate through several Latin America countries, including Brazil. We argue that their migration to the Brazilian capital can neither be understood as a linear movement characterized by an established Haiti-Brasilia connection nor defined as movement to a place where these migrants attempt to settle down. Rather, we show that the recent presence of Brasilia in the mobility of these Haitians has to be understood in the context of a vast dynamic meshwork of places, people and information. |
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