African migratory trajectories across Central America: displacements, transitory emplacements, and ambivalent migration nodes

穿越中美洲的非洲移民轨迹：流离失所、短暂安置和矛盾的移民节点

• 批准号: 406978565
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Heike Drotbohm
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/406978565?language=en
• 关键词: African; migratory; trajectories; across; Central

This research project aims to gain insight into the emerging trajectories of displaced African migrants who traverse severely challenged Central American countries in an attempt to reach North America. On an empirical level, the project responds to the recent increase of African migrants and refugees in Central America and situates their understudied experiences in a context of globe-spanning yet lopsided migration routes, crises and industries. On a theoretical level, the project builds on and further elaborates critical understandings of the dynamics between migration, displacement and (im)mobilities. In particular, the project asks to what extent novel conceptualizations of the displacement/emplacement dialectic can be applied to the increasingly drawn-out and volatile migrant trajectories across the Global South. To do so, its ethnographic focus lies on migrant journeys as well as on what will be referred to as “migration nodes” of smuggling, surveillance and solidarity throughout largely understudied yet key Central American sites. Offering an ethnographic understanding of migrant trajectories through these interconnected journeys and nodes, this project contributes to the theorization of ambivalent, entangled, and localized displacement dynamics. By showing what happens before migrants reach the expanding borders of the Global North, the project counters simplistic, managerial interpretations and representations of migrants and refugees en route within the Global South, whose experiences need to be researched in a processual mode.

该研究项目旨在深入了解流离失所的非洲移民的新轨迹，他们穿越严重挑战的中美洲国家，试图到达北美。在经验层面上，该项目回应了最近中美洲非洲移民和难民的增加，并将他们未被充分研究的经验置于全球范围内但不平衡的移民路线、危机和行业背景下。在理论层面上，该项目建立并进一步阐述了对迁移、流离失所和（非）流动之间动态的关键理解。该项目特别提出了一个问题，即流离失所/安置辩证法的新概念在多大程度上可以应用于全球南方日益漫长和不稳定的移民轨迹。为了做到这一点，它的人种学重点在于移民之旅，以及将被称为“移民节点”的走私、监视和团结，这些节点在很大程度上没有得到充分研究，但却是中美洲的关键地点。通过这些相互关联的旅程和节点，本项目提供了对移民轨迹的民族志理解，有助于将矛盾、纠缠和局部位移动力学理论化。通过展示移民到达全球北方不断扩大的边界之前发生的事情，该项目反对对全球南方境内移民和难民的简单化、管理性解释和表述，他们的经历需要以一种过程模式进行研究。