Routes to the First World

Brazilian migration journeys after the September 11 attacks

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3097355
AutoresGustavo Dias (0000-0001-5325-3253, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume38
Fascículo111
Data de publicação2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRevista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0102-6909 • E-ISSN: 1806-9053
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/3811024/2023
OpenAlexW4387884607
SCIELO_PIDS0102-69092023000100520
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas13

This paper examines how Brazilians remodeled their international migration routes to the "First World" after the September 11 attacks. It explores the connections between the temporary suspension of Brazilian migration to the United States and the rise of the United Kingdom as the main destination. To shed light on the production of new routes by Brazilians, the paper unfolds personal migration journeys performed to overcome border controls set by the UK. The empirical data at the basis of this article come from a broadly qualitative, ethnographic approach, which comprised multi-sited fieldwork in the UK and Brazil, and two sets of oral histories conducted with migrants, travel agents, and returned migrants between 2010 and 2016. Based on these sources, the article shows how migrants developed tactical border crossing movements to negotiate with institutions and structures of power that control and constrain their movements with threats

Economic geography · Ethnography · Geography · Irregular migration · Migration studies · Negotiation · Political science · Power (physics) · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Migration, Refugees, and Integration