Unsettling the migration and development narrative. A Latin American critical perspective
| Published date | 01 August 2022 |
| Author | Raúl Delgado Wise |
| Date | 01 August 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12994 |
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International Migration. 2022;60:8–18.
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INTRODUCTION
Humanity is facing one of it s most severe and distressing crises with more u ncertainties than ever before in
the histor y of capitalis m. This crisis, envisioned by Joh n Bellamy Foster (2013) as an ep ochal crisis, invo lves
the converg ence of economi c and ecologic al contradict ions to such a degree th at they pose a threat to the
survival of our s ocieties on a planetar y scale . According to David Harvey (2020) ‘…COVID- 19 is nature's
revenge for over forty year s of nat ure's gross and abusive mistreatmen t at th e hands of a vi olent and un-
regulated neoliberal extractiv ism.’ The force of the pa ndemic is expanding at an exponential rate, leading
to a global reces sion that portrays th e features of a clas s, gendered and racial ized pandemic. This spa rked
Received: 30 Ja nuary 2021
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Revised: 5 July 2021
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Accepted: 12 Decem ber 2021
DOI: 10.1111/imig.12994
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE
Unsettling the migration and development
narrative. A Latin American critical perspective
Raúl Delgado Wise
© 2022 The Auth ors. Internation al Migration © 2022 IO M
Universida d Autónoma de Zacat ecas
– Unidad Acad émica en Estudio s del
Desarroll o, Zacatecas, Me xico
Correspondence
Raúl Delgad o Wise, Universida d Autónoma
de Zacatec as – Unidad Académi ca en
Estudios de l Desarrollo, Faro les 104
Zacatecas Z acatecas 980 00, Mexico.
Email: rdwise@uaz.edu.mx
Abstract
The effort s to build an institutional framewor k for the
governance of migration followed a complex and uncer-
tain route. S ince 2006, these ef forts— which culminated in
the adoptio n of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and
Secure Migration in 2018—focused on the relationship be-
tween migration and development in an attempt to avoid
the negative co nnotations surrounding hu man mobility,
particularl y across the North- South divide. At the heart
of the debates is an attempt to reconcile two irreconcil-
able positions: a human- rights centred app roach and the
securitization question which reaffirms t he right of s tates
to criminalize migrants under the façade of th e right of
states to control “ille gal” migration. The aim of this pape r
is to delve into these issues by upse tting the migration and
development hegemonic narrative from an alternative per-
spective rooted in the critical Latin American development
school of thought.
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