Gisela P Zapata
Biographic Data
| ID | 772645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gisela P Zapata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gisela P |
| FAMILY NAME | Zapata |
| SIGNATURE | ZAPATA G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8644-5160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Condiciones de entrada y permanencia del mercado laboral informal de los inmigrantes venezolanos en Colombia
El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las condiciones de entrada y permanencia en el mercado laboral informal de los inmigrantes venezolanos en Colombia. Se centra en comprender cómo las trayectorias laborales de estos inmigrantes son moldeadas por las capacidades individuales, las redes de apoyo y la estructura del mercado laboral colombiano. Para tal fin, se desarrolló una investigación con enfoque cualitativo con entrevistas semiestructurad…
Governing Migration Through Humanitarianism: Emerging Trends in Latin America
I'm giving up on Brazil: Shifting Migration Aspirations and Capabilities in the Face of Simultaneous Crises
Based on the aspirations-capabilities framework, this paper analyses how the overlap of three shocks - a national socio-political crisis, an economic downturn, and a socio-environmental disaster - influenced households' international migration aspirations, decisions and strategies. The study uses a mixed methods approach, including a statistically representative survey and eighteen semi-structured interviews conducted with households with and wit…
Migrants’ entangled socio-political and biological lives during the Covid-19 emergency in Brazil
For migrants in Brazil, the COVID-19 global health crisis meant a considerable worsening of living conditions, with increased basic material needs. The reduction of individuals’ existence to the mere search for survival had important repercussions on the activities of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country, whose work became increasingly focused on the distribution of emergency assistance for these populations. Drawing on 25 interviews…
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during Covid-19
Marcia Vera Espinoza - ORCID: 0000-0001-6238-7683 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6238-7683
Diaspora engagement policies and transnational financialisation in Colombia
Although the debate on the migration-remittances-development nexus in Latin America has advanced considerably in recent years, the literature has yet to analyse the socio-political implications of the process of Financialisation of Remittances (FOR) in the region. This paper sheds light on the relationship between the FOR and diaspora engagement policies in Colombia, thus contributing to a growing body of critical analyses on diasporas as agents …
Migrações sul-sul: A recente onda de imigrantes zimbabweanos em Tete - Moçambique (2007-2016)
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a dinâmica das migrações internacionais sul-sul a partir do estudo de caso da recente imigração de zimbabweanos para a província de Tete, Moçambique, historicamente uma região de emigração. Nesse sentido, examinamos as características sociodemográficas desses novos imigrantes, assim como as condições e motivações individuais, familiares e estruturais subjacentes ao fluxo migratório. Para tanto, combinamos dados …
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 health crisis has put to the test Latin America's already precarious social protection systems. This paper comparatively examines what type of social protection has been provided, by whom, and to what extent migrant and refugee populations have been included in these programmes in seven countries of the region during the COVID-19 pandemic, between March and December 2020. We develop a typology of models of social protection highlight…
Progressive legislation but lukewarm policies: The Brazilian response to Venezuelan displacement
Fleeing from the country's humanitarian crisis, around 224,000 Venezuelans, half of whom requested protection as refugees, had crossed the border into Brazil as of December 2019. The paper uses a case study approach combining quantitative and documentary evidence to systematically examine the Brazilian political‐institutional response to this mass displacement. Although Brazil has been internationally praised as a model, its policy response has b…
International migration and household living arrangements among transnational families in Brazil
Much has been discussed in the international literature about the relationship between family arrangements and migration decision-making, although few studies have done so through the analysis of quantitative data from migrants’ countries of origin. Based on the theoretical contributions brought by the New Economics of Labor Migration and Transnationalism, we investigate how three intervening factors affect household living arrangements in the mi…
Structural and Contingent Inequalities: The Impact of Covid-19 on Migrant and Refugee Populations in South America
In a comparative assessment of the pre-pandemic living conditions of migrants and refugees in six South American countries, we analyse the structural and contingent challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on these populations. We argue that they are particularly exposed to the harmful effects of the pandemic, given their segmented incorporation into labour markets and their limited and fragmented access to and exercise of health, housing, and…
Transnational migration, remittances and the financialization of housing in Colombia
Recently, various Latin American governments have sought to render migrants as development agents by channelling remittances to specific sectors such as housing and finance. The available literature has yet to articulate how these developments are reconfiguring the political economy of housing in the region. The paper draws on empirical data collected at both ends of the Colombia–UK migration network. It argues that the Colombian Government’s eff…
Invisible Development? Remittances for Housing and Transnational Reproduction Strategies among Migrant Households in Colombia
In recent years, the Colombian government has embraced the migration‐development agenda by designing programmes to channel remittances to key sectors such as housing and finance,in an attempt to institutionalise migrant households’ transnational economic practices. However, little is known about migrant households’ multifaceted transnational practices, their broader impact on households’ and localities’ socioeconomic development and migrants’ eng…
Comentário: O Significado Da Nova Lei De Migração 13.445/17 No Contexto Histórico Da Mobilidade Humana No Brasil
Neste comentário sobre a nova Lei de Migração, procuramos contextualizar tanto as trajetórias dos deslocamentos humanos no tempo e no espaço da sociedade brasileira, quanto as suas correspondências no plano das instituições públicas que tornam as migrações objeto de controle, planejamento e política. Para isso, recuperamos os mecanismos sóciodemográficos, econômicos, jurídicos e políticos que atravessam a história brasileira quanto ao tratamento …
Human Right in Perspective: Inequalities in Access to Water in a Rural Community of the Brazilian Northeast
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the increasing inequalities in access to water and the concentration of the deficit among certain population groups. In particular, it seeks a better understanding of the multiple inequalities of access to water that can exist within a community that lacks a water supply system. Data collection took place in the community of Cristais (Ceará) and included the application of 232 questionnaires to all o…
The migration–development nexus: Rendering migrants as transnational financial subjects through housing
These kids can't write abstracts’: Reflections on a postgraduate writing and publishing workshop
There has been a lack of attention given – in both academic literature and in research training – to providing graduate students with the necessary knowledge and skills to write for publication. The aim of this article is to explore our experiences of participating in a three-day residential postgraduate writing and publishing workshop that was designed to address skills provision in these terms. We reflect upon three specific issues in particula…
The migration–development nexus: Rendering migrants as transnational financial subjects through housing
Progressive legislation but lukewarm policies: The Brazilian response to Venezuelan displacement
Fleeing from the country's humanitarian crisis, around 224,000 Venezuelans, half of whom requested protection as refugees, had crossed the border into Brazil as of December 2019. The paper uses a case study approach combining quantitative and documentary evidence to systematically examine the Brazilian political‐institutional response to this mass displacement. Although Brazil has been internationally praised as a model, its policy response has b…
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 health crisis has put to the test Latin America's already precarious social protection systems. This paper comparatively examines what type of social protection has been provided, by whom, and to what extent migrant and refugee populations have been included in these programmes in seven countries of the region during the COVID-19 pandemic, between March and December 2020. We develop a typology of models of social protection highlight…
Structural and Contingent Inequalities: The Impact of Covid-19 on Migrant and Refugee Populations in South America
In a comparative assessment of the pre-pandemic living conditions of migrants and refugees in six South American countries, we analyse the structural and contingent challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on these populations. We argue that they are particularly exposed to the harmful effects of the pandemic, given their segmented incorporation into labour markets and their limited and fragmented access to and exercise of health, housing, and…
Transnational migration, remittances and the financialization of housing in Colombia
Recently, various Latin American governments have sought to render migrants as development agents by channelling remittances to specific sectors such as housing and finance. The available literature has yet to articulate how these developments are reconfiguring the political economy of housing in the region. The paper draws on empirical data collected at both ends of the Colombia–UK migration network. It argues that the Colombian Government’s eff…
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during Covid-19
Marcia Vera Espinoza - ORCID: 0000-0001-6238-7683 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6238-7683
International migration and household living arrangements among transnational families in Brazil
Much has been discussed in the international literature about the relationship between family arrangements and migration decision-making, although few studies have done so through the analysis of quantitative data from migrants’ countries of origin. Based on the theoretical contributions brought by the New Economics of Labor Migration and Transnationalism, we investigate how three intervening factors affect household living arrangements in the mi…
Comentário: O Significado Da Nova Lei De Migração 13.445/17 No Contexto Histórico Da Mobilidade Humana No Brasil
Neste comentário sobre a nova Lei de Migração, procuramos contextualizar tanto as trajetórias dos deslocamentos humanos no tempo e no espaço da sociedade brasileira, quanto as suas correspondências no plano das instituições públicas que tornam as migrações objeto de controle, planejamento e política. Para isso, recuperamos os mecanismos sóciodemográficos, econômicos, jurídicos e políticos que atravessam a história brasileira quanto ao tratamento …
Diaspora engagement policies and transnational financialisation in Colombia
Although the debate on the migration-remittances-development nexus in Latin America has advanced considerably in recent years, the literature has yet to analyse the socio-political implications of the process of Financialisation of Remittances (FOR) in the region. This paper sheds light on the relationship between the FOR and diaspora engagement policies in Colombia, thus contributing to a growing body of critical analyses on diasporas as agents …
Invisible Development? Remittances for Housing and Transnational Reproduction Strategies among Migrant Households in Colombia
In recent years, the Colombian government has embraced the migration‐development agenda by designing programmes to channel remittances to key sectors such as housing and finance,in an attempt to institutionalise migrant households’ transnational economic practices. However, little is known about migrant households’ multifaceted transnational practices, their broader impact on households’ and localities’ socioeconomic development and migrants’ eng…
Human Right in Perspective: Inequalities in Access to Water in a Rural Community of the Brazilian Northeast
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the increasing inequalities in access to water and the concentration of the deficit among certain population groups. In particular, it seeks a better understanding of the multiple inequalities of access to water that can exist within a community that lacks a water supply system. Data collection took place in the community of Cristais (Ceará) and included the application of 232 questionnaires to all o…
Governing Migration Through Humanitarianism: Emerging Trends in Latin America
These kids can't write abstracts’: Reflections on a postgraduate writing and publishing workshop
There has been a lack of attention given – in both academic literature and in research training – to providing graduate students with the necessary knowledge and skills to write for publication. The aim of this article is to explore our experiences of participating in a three-day residential postgraduate writing and publishing workshop that was designed to address skills provision in these terms. We reflect upon three specific issues in particula…
The migration–development nexus: Rendering migrants as transnational financial subjects through housing
Human Right in Perspective: Inequalities in Access to Water in a Rural Community of the Brazilian Northeast
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the increasing inequalities in access to water and the concentration of the deficit among certain population groups. In particular, it seeks a better understanding of the multiple inequalities of access to water that can exist within a community that lacks a water supply system. Data collection took place in the community of Cristais (Ceará) and included the application of 232 questionnaires to all o…
Transnational migration, remittances and the financialization of housing in Colombia
Recently, various Latin American governments have sought to render migrants as development agents by channelling remittances to specific sectors such as housing and finance. The available literature has yet to articulate how these developments are reconfiguring the political economy of housing in the region. The paper draws on empirical data collected at both ends of the Colombia–UK migration network. It argues that the Colombian Government’s eff…
Invisible Development? Remittances for Housing and Transnational Reproduction Strategies among Migrant Households in Colombia
In recent years, the Colombian government has embraced the migration‐development agenda by designing programmes to channel remittances to key sectors such as housing and finance,in an attempt to institutionalise migrant households’ transnational economic practices. However, little is known about migrant households’ multifaceted transnational practices, their broader impact on households’ and localities’ socioeconomic development and migrants’ eng…
Comentário: O Significado Da Nova Lei De Migração 13.445/17 No Contexto Histórico Da Mobilidade Humana No Brasil
Neste comentário sobre a nova Lei de Migração, procuramos contextualizar tanto as trajetórias dos deslocamentos humanos no tempo e no espaço da sociedade brasileira, quanto as suas correspondências no plano das instituições públicas que tornam as migrações objeto de controle, planejamento e política. Para isso, recuperamos os mecanismos sóciodemográficos, econômicos, jurídicos e políticos que atravessam a história brasileira quanto ao tratamento …
Structural and Contingent Inequalities: The Impact of Covid-19 on Migrant and Refugee Populations in South America
In a comparative assessment of the pre-pandemic living conditions of migrants and refugees in six South American countries, we analyse the structural and contingent challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on these populations. We argue that they are particularly exposed to the harmful effects of the pandemic, given their segmented incorporation into labour markets and their limited and fragmented access to and exercise of health, housing, and…
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 health crisis has put to the test Latin America's already precarious social protection systems. This paper comparatively examines what type of social protection has been provided, by whom, and to what extent migrant and refugee populations have been included in these programmes in seven countries of the region during the COVID-19 pandemic, between March and December 2020. We develop a typology of models of social protection highlight…
Progressive legislation but lukewarm policies: The Brazilian response to Venezuelan displacement
Fleeing from the country's humanitarian crisis, around 224,000 Venezuelans, half of whom requested protection as refugees, had crossed the border into Brazil as of December 2019. The paper uses a case study approach combining quantitative and documentary evidence to systematically examine the Brazilian political‐institutional response to this mass displacement. Although Brazil has been internationally praised as a model, its policy response has b…
International migration and household living arrangements among transnational families in Brazil
Much has been discussed in the international literature about the relationship between family arrangements and migration decision-making, although few studies have done so through the analysis of quantitative data from migrants’ countries of origin. Based on the theoretical contributions brought by the New Economics of Labor Migration and Transnationalism, we investigate how three intervening factors affect household living arrangements in the mi…
Diaspora engagement policies and transnational financialisation in Colombia
Although the debate on the migration-remittances-development nexus in Latin America has advanced considerably in recent years, the literature has yet to analyse the socio-political implications of the process of Financialisation of Remittances (FOR) in the region. This paper sheds light on the relationship between the FOR and diaspora engagement policies in Colombia, thus contributing to a growing body of critical analyses on diasporas as agents …
Migrações sul-sul: A recente onda de imigrantes zimbabweanos em Tete - Moçambique (2007-2016)
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a dinâmica das migrações internacionais sul-sul a partir do estudo de caso da recente imigração de zimbabweanos para a província de Tete, Moçambique, historicamente uma região de emigração. Nesse sentido, examinamos as características sociodemográficas desses novos imigrantes, assim como as condições e motivações individuais, familiares e estruturais subjacentes ao fluxo migratório. Para tanto, combinamos dados …
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during Covid-19
Marcia Vera Espinoza - ORCID: 0000-0001-6238-7683 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6238-7683
Migrants’ entangled socio-political and biological lives during the Covid-19 emergency in Brazil
For migrants in Brazil, the COVID-19 global health crisis meant a considerable worsening of living conditions, with increased basic material needs. The reduction of individuals’ existence to the mere search for survival had important repercussions on the activities of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country, whose work became increasingly focused on the distribution of emergency assistance for these populations. Drawing on 25 interviews…
Condiciones de entrada y permanencia del mercado laboral informal de los inmigrantes venezolanos en Colombia
El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las condiciones de entrada y permanencia en el mercado laboral informal de los inmigrantes venezolanos en Colombia. Se centra en comprender cómo las trayectorias laborales de estos inmigrantes son moldeadas por las capacidades individuales, las redes de apoyo y la estructura del mercado laboral colombiano. Para tal fin, se desarrolló una investigación con enfoque cualitativo con entrevistas semiestructurad…
Governing Migration Through Humanitarianism: Emerging Trends in Latin America
I'm giving up on Brazil: Shifting Migration Aspirations and Capabilities in the Face of Simultaneous Crises
Based on the aspirations-capabilities framework, this paper analyses how the overlap of three shocks - a national socio-political crisis, an economic downturn, and a socio-environmental disaster - influenced households' international migration aspirations, decisions and strategies. The study uses a mixed methods approach, including a statistically representative survey and eighteen semi-structured interviews conducted with households with and wit…
Political science (16 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Latin Americans (5 works)