The North Amazon Border: Haitian Flow to Brazil and New Policies
The North Amazon Border: Haitian Flow to Brazil and New Policies
The chapter argues that to understand contemporary borders, there is a need to go beyond the geographical and physical ‘fences’, checkpoints and office counters. Based on a case study of the recent migration flow of Haitians to Brazil, from 2010 to 2015, the chapter explores how the North Amazon border, long forgotten by the Brazilian government, has become a place of migration, negotiation, resilience and political attention. Haitians moved from being a few dozen immigrants to Brazil in 2010 to become the main immigrant group in the formal labour market in the country in 2013, overtaking the classic migration flows to Brazil, such as the Portuguese. This resulted in a search of the Brazilian government for new policies and strategies to ‘control’ and ‘regulate’ this flow and the border. In conclusion, the unexpected migration of Haitians to Brazil set the country into global mobility and enlarged the complexity of Brazil’s migration history.
Keywords: Brazil, Haiti, Migration flows, Border policies, North Amazon, Global mobility, Migration regulation
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