A Discursive ecology in south-south immigration
re-scaling language in two decades
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https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v26i1.58190Keywords:
immigration, space, territory, discursive ecology, mobilityAbstract
This study seeks to look at the role and profile of Brazilian immigration control regarding securitization, knowledge regimes, criminalization, immigrant inclusion, dislocation and (im)mobility through institutional documents. Human mobility is not exempt from evaluative procedures in which there is careful focus on the institutional legitimation of values and truths (topoi) vis à vis the Brazilian nation-state’s discursive ecology of territorialization. Space is scaled within a language-ideology framework. In this sense, mobility is a trajectory through hierarchically stratified and controlled spaces. Discursive territory demands careful thought given that constructing institutional immigration and regulatory systems is not tied down to humanitarian issues but to mobility regimes in which urban life becomes a process of displacement and (non-)structured or (non-) scaled emplacement as the nation’s borders have to be critically rethought vis à vis status-making labels for immigrants and refugees.
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