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Autonomy and Struggle in Times of Viral Borders: Venezuelans Across the South American Andes During Covid-19
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Palma-Gutiérrez, Mauricio
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2023-03-30
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This article takes a close look at Venezuelan migrants' experinences throughout the Andean corridor of cross-border mobility during the COVID-19 emergency. It focuses on the differentiated characteristics of their fragmented journeys to trace the potenctial of struggles in reclaiming autonomy in contemporary migration. Conceptually, it expands on Nicholas De Genova’s ‘viral borders’ to explore the ways migrants rechannelled, reimaigined, and remade their trajectories amid the recent wave of violent, nationalist border controls, expanded in the name of public health. The article argues that, to cope with the consequences of COVID-19 management, Venezuelan migrants made mobility choices related to their differentiated access to social and material resources, enmeshed in prevailing racialised, classed, and gendered social structures. Meanwhile, migrant struggles enabled autonomy amid fragmented journeys opposite Covid-19-related attempts of nationalist (re)bordering. It is suggested that, as legacies of viral borders become more evident, autonomy and struggle remain key in shaping mobility amid the exclusionary post-pandemical border regime.
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Venezuelan migrants , Andean corridor , Cross-bordermobility , COVID-19 , Fragmented journeys , Migrants struggles , Autonomy , Viral borders , Border controls , Public health , Mobility choices , Social resources , Racialised structures , Classed structures , Gendered structures , Nationalist bordering , Post-pandemic border regime
