La(s) Industria(s) de la Migración. ¿Un Nuevo Enfoque en el Análisis de la Movilidad Internacional?

Abstract

A lo largo de la última década el enfoque de la industria migratoria ha tenido un amplio desarrollo en los estudios sobre la movilidad internacional de personas. Esta perspectiva ha tenido un particular desarrollo en la literatura de intersección sobre las nuevas formas que ha adoptado la regulación migratoria y los mecanismos de intermediación y privatización. Se trata de un enfoque en construcción donde todavía permanecen abiertas amplias controversias en torno a su contorno, alcance, actores y funciones. Sin embargo, esta literatura ha realizado importantes contribuciones a los estudios sobre la movilidad internacional de trabajadores - a través fundamentalmente del análisis de la intermediación laboral- y la gestión del control migratorio -a través de la conformación de alianzas de nuevo cuño entre el Estado y diversos actores privados. El objetivo de este artículo es presentar y analizar la conformación de este enfoque, los dilemas que han emergido en el seno de esta literatura, así como reflexionar críticamente en torno a sus principales contribuciones al campo de los estudios migratorios. En este sentido, y enmarcado en el presente monográfico, el artículo pretende realizar una aportación que transcienda la mera descripción de esta perspectiva para interrogarse, entre otros, sobre sus peculiaridades como enfoque, su diálogo con otras orientaciones influyentes en los estudios migratorios, o, de forma muy sucinta, sus vínculos con otras teorías. Este recorrido pretende servir también para introducir esta perspectiva en la literatura española, ya que, a pesar del interés que ha despertado a nivel internacional, apenas se ha incorporado a la investigación sobre las migraciones en España.Throughout the past decade the migration industry approach has been broadly used in studies on the international mobility of people. In particular, it has been the focus of literature examining how new forms of migration regulation have converged with intermediation and privatization mechanisms. This approach is still being developed and there continue to be wide-ranging debates regarding its contours, scope, actors and functions. However, this literature has provided important contributions to the study of the international mobility of workers, mainly through analyses of the novel partnerships that have been established between the state and various private actors to provide labor intermediation and migration control management. The objective of this article is to present and analyze the composition of this focus and the dilemmas that have emerged within the literature, as well as to provide a critical reflection regarding its main contributions to the field of migration studies. In this sense, framed within this monograph, the article seeks to go beyond providing a mere description of the perspective to examine, among other aspects, its peculiarities as a focus and its discourse with other influential approaches in migration studies or, succinctly put, its links with other theories. It will also serve to introduce this perspective to the Spanish literature, as, despite the interest it has sparked on an international level, it has barely been incorporated into research on migrations in Spain.

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