Abstract

ECHEVERRI ZULUAGA, Jonathan; ORDONEZ, Juan Thomas; ALVAREZ POSADA, Jorge Raúl  and  BARD, Nicolás Henao. Reflections on the Construction of Migrant Smuggling in Colombia Based on the Case of Uraba. Secuencia [online]. 2023, n.116, e2077.  Epub June 23, 2023. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i116.2077.

For approximately two decades, Colombia has experienced migratory flows of Africans, Asians, and Caribbeans (mainly Cubans and Haitians). This article analyzes the way these flows are treated in the national digital press, academia, and Colombian legislation. Construction of the problem in these spheres tends to associate this form of human mobility with migrant smuggling. We suggest that this perspective fails to account for the range of ways the journey can be interpreted and instead stigmatizes and criminalizes the spontaneous or disinterested relationships that can emerge in transit, denying the capacity for agency of people on the move.

Keywords : migrant smuggling; Uraba; extracontinental migration; digital press.

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