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The politics of generosity. Colombian official discourse towards migration from Venezuela, 2015-2018
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Palma-Gutierrez, Mauricio (2021) The politics of generosity. Colombian official discourse towards migration from Venezuela, 2015-2018. Colombia Internacional (106). pp. 29-56. doi:10.7440/colombiaint106.2021.02 ISSN 0121-5612.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7440/colombiaint106.2021.02
Abstract
Objective/context: As a step towards understanding the nature of power and political action amidst large-scale human mobility, the article analyses how migration from Venezuela emerged in Colombian official discourse between 2015 and 2018. The aim is to trace Colombia’s migration policy’s leading drivers, widely perceived as a generous response towards an escalating humanitarian crisis. Methodology: A context analysis of over 400-plus pieces of information produced by three high-level entities inside the Colombian government was designed. Units of analysis were defined based on van Dijk´s (1997) approach to political discourse, while coding of information was traced drawing upon selected scholarship on Critical Border Studies. Conclusions: Colombian official discourse between 2015 and 2018 was shaped by pragmatism, focusing on consolidating a schema of specific governmentality by eliciting three interrelated processes: the construction of an imaginary of migration from Venezuela as a process made precarious; the consolidation of a strategy of irregularization; and the centering of ‘generosity’ as the leading premise for legitimizing political action. Originality: The article sheds light on the nature of the power context in which the Colombian government’s response to migration from Venezuela emerged by empirically adapting current critical scholarship.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Venezuela -- Emigration and immigration, Colombia -- Emigration and immigration, Immigrants -- Colombia, Immigration enforcement -- Colombia, Humanitarianism -- Colombia | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Colombia Internacional | ||||||
Publisher: | Universidad de los Andes | ||||||
ISSN: | 0121-5612 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2021 | ||||||
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Number: | 106 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 29-56 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.7440/colombiaint106.2021.02 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 April 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 April 2021 | ||||||
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