Soledad Álvarez Velasco

Biographic Data

ID3759664
NAMESoledad Álvarez Velasco
GIVEN NAMESSoledad Álvarez
FAMILY NAMEVelasco
SIGNATUREVELASCO S Á
AFFILIATIONSKing's College London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS31
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Counter-Archives to Border Fascism

    Á Velasco, Soledad Álvarez Velasco et al.ARTICLENACLA Report on the Americas2026

  • Echoes of Trump Across the Darién: Return Transits and Local Repercussions

    Á Velasco, Soledad Álvarez Velasco et al.ARTICLENACLA Report on the Americas2026

    A signboard with Spanish and English text about the Darien jungle crossing between Colombia and Panama, hanging inside a shelter.The figure shows a rectangular signboard hanging from a metal roof s

  • Between ' Trochas ', Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US 'Soft' Remote Control in Ecuador

    Á Velasco, Soledad Álvarez VelascoARTICLEGeopolitics2025Cited by: 3References: 52

    This article proposes a two-scale analysis of how US border externalisation is spatially embedded in Ecuador, producing place-making transformations. On a national scale, it has turned Ecuador into a ‘soft’ buffer to halt unwanted global migration to the US. On a cuerpo-territorio scale, it has had at least two effects. On the one hand, it has transformed migrant-sending communities into mourning and orphaned places as a direct effect of Ecuadore…

  • Covid capitalism: The contested logistics of migrant labour supply chains in the double crisis

    Open AccessStephan Scheel, Á Velasco et al.ARTICLEPolitics2024Cited by: 1References: 33

    The introduction to the special issue (SI) lays out the agenda and key concepts of the SI ‘COVID Capitalism: The Contested Logistics of Migrant Labour Supply Chains in the Double Crisis’. The contributions to the SI focus on the reconfiguration of the means and methods of the exploitation of migrant labour during the COVID-19 pandemic and the related reorganisation of contemporary border and migration regimes. They all focus, more or less explici…

  • Circulations and Solidarities in the Darién: As thousands cross the perilous jungle gap linking Colombia to Central America every day, one Panamanian border town is transformed by the multiple lives a…

    Á Velasco, Soledad Álvarez Velasco et al.ARTICLENACLA Report on the Americas2023

    People arrive by piragua in Lajas Blancas, Metetí, Panama, May 13, 2023. (UNHCR / MELISSA PINEL)Metetí is the penultimate Panamanian town before the only gap in the Pan-American Highway that otherw

  • Migration and Crime in a Divided World: Strategies, Perceptions, and Struggles

    Open AccessL Achilli, A Missbach et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2023References: 51

    Contemporary research shows that current migration policies and technologies produce criminality. It would be advantageous, then, to understand how migrants make sense of and respond to these criminalizing migration policies, technologies, and practices. This volume delves deeply into criminalization processes, focusing on how migrants perceive and react to the enactment and implementation of policy. The articles take a close look at the day-to-d…

  • Por trocha: Circumventing the Episodical Criminalization of Migration in the Andes

    Open AccessÁ Velasco, Soledad Álvarez Velasco et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2023Cited by: 1References: 25

    We analyze how the criminalization of migration has taken hold in the borderlands of Ecuador and Colombia from 2000 to 2022, despite the existence of progressive legal frameworks in those two countries that have historically allowed for relatively open borders and recognition of migrants' rights. We use a historical and ethnographic approach to explore how criminalizing mechanisms have been implemented, showing that the criminalization of migrati…

  • Deportees in Transit Between Ecuador and the US: A Historical and Ethnographic Approach to Migrant Disobedience and its Spatial Impacts

    Open AccessÁ Velasco, Soledad Álvarez VelascoARTICLEAntipode2022Cited by: 5References: 54

    By focusing on the Ecuador−US postcolonial and transnational space and reconstructing trajectories of Ecuadoreans who migrated to the US, were deported and recommenced their undocumented transits to that same destination, this article analyses the migrant disobedience and its spatial impacts. The article proves how deportees in transits are not docile figures: their unruly mobilities re‐actualise historical disobedience against insurmountable col…

  • Cuando los sujetos se mueven de su lugar: Una interrogación al extractivismo y la movilidad en la ecología política latinoamericana

    Open AccessManuel Bayón Jiménez, Karolien Van Teijlingen et al.ARTICLERevista de geografía Norte Grande2021Cited by: 4

    Como en toda Amrica Latina, la ecologa poltica ha surgido como uno de los abordajes principales dentro del debate sobre los extractivismos en Ecuador. Desde nuestra contribucin activa a este debate, nuestro objetivo con este artculo es reflexionar sobre los aportes y limitaciones que ha supuesto la ecologa poltica latinoamericana para el anlisis del extractivismo, y en particular las posiciones de los sujetos comunitarios e indgenas. Analizaremos…

  • From Ecuador to Elsewhere

    Open AccessÁ Velasco, Soledad Álvarez VelascoARTICLEMigration and Society2020

    Unlike other transit countries, Ecuador’s position as a transit country has just begun to be publicly addressed, having been more of a strategic public secret than a topic of public interest. Based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2016, this article discusses the dynamics of the (re)configuration of Ecuador as a transit country used by both immigrants and Ecuadorean deportees mainly from the United States to reach…

  • Excluir para proteger: La "guerra" contra la trata de personas y el tráfico de migrantes y las nuevas lógicas de control migratorio en Ecuador

    Open AccessMartha Cecilia Ruíz, Martha Cecilia Ruiz Muriel et al.ARTICLEEstudios Sociológicos de El…2019Cited by: 7References: 19

    Lejos de concebir que seguridad y derechos humanos, por un lado, y restricción y protección, por otro, son dos perspectivas excluyentes en el manejo de las migraciones internacionales, este artículo argumenta que ambas se articulan y alimentan mutuamente. Exploramos esta articulación desde los estudios sobre gubernamentalidad, y analizamos las políticas antitrata y antitráfico, centrales en las agendas migratorias regionales e internacionales. No…

  • Historicizing Mobility: Coyoterismo in the Indigenous Ecuadorian Migration Industry

    Open AccessVictoria Stone-Cadena, Victoria Stone‐Cadena et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2018Cited by: 10References: 16

    Based on ethnographic research in the Ecuadorian Highlands, this article puts the mobility, migration, and smuggling practices of Ecuador's indigenous people in historical and contemporary context. The people of Ecuador's Southern Highlands have been on the move for generations, and migration is deeply embedded in the social and cultural landscape. In the rural communities of Cañar, indigenous coyotes are more than facilitators of migration: they…