Migration to Debate. Political Issues at the Time of the Regimes of Terror

Abstract

This paper reviews the fundamental changes to migration and migrants after 9/11, when an era of securitization or terror regimes began. It presents a wide range of paradoxes and contradictions between speeches and actions to protect and guarantee the migrants rights, and the multiple and diverse tendency to criminalize them and put them into contexts of violence. I develop six primary theses present in these phenomena. I explain them through discussion with two vignettes drawn from ethnographic fieldwork.