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The Irrational Hero

Andrés Bianque Squadracci — 2026-01-30T20:24:27Z

Can you see my scars shining? My dry eye behind the patch? Can you read me despite the blots?
I am not limping, I am just slow.
Once, I was a bird, sometimes I was a tree, a cloud.
I remember the day, the sea looked at me for the first time, and I was scared, just like I am scared now. I am not crying; I am repeating the vowels of the ocean.
Suddenly, I do appreciate the architecture of my hands. They are beautiful. And something sinister is slaughtering the sons and the daughters (…)

- United States / poésie / poesía, Global

The Seal Cartel: A Case Study

Andrés Bianque Squadracci — 2026-01-30T20:08:46Z

For years, the Seal Cartel operated out of sight, below public visibility and beyond legal oversight, affecting the population of the Island.
Fish smuggling spread across the region, and fishermen gradually left. The Island is called Preenland. It exists due to its queen.
The remaining fishermen cooperated with the Seal Cartel. Refusal resulted in intervention by polar bears, who acted as the seals' security force. Damage was considered incidental.
The Cartel operated under the (…)

- Poems and Stories / récits / relatos, Global

Criminalization and the closure of borders as producers of migrant deaths

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez — 2023-03-20T14:47:46Z

Since the last decades of the last century, international migrations have increased and are present in various regions of the world (Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa). According to data from the National Population Council, in 2020 there were already more than 280 million international migrants. This migratory increase has been linked to the effects of the expansion and consolidation of neoliberal capitalism and globalization. The increase in poverty, the increase in inequality and the (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / United States of America, Global, México, criminalisation / criminalización, frontières / fronteras, migrations / migraciones

Migrant Deaths and Disappearances: Between Criminalization and Border Closures

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez — 2022-12-14T13:51:51Z

Every year in different regions of the world, poverty, lack of work and violence produce cross-border migrations of millions of people. For decades, these contexts of expulsion of migrants have increased with the structural increase in inequality, the deterioration of the living conditions of a large part of the population and the accumulation of wealth derived from neoliberal globalization.
International migrations imply spatial redistribution through different countries with large (…)

- Global / América Central, Global, United States of America, América Latina, criminalisation / criminalización, frontières / fronteras, migrations / migraciones

Conflicts, Resistance, and Indigenous and Peasant Struggles

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez — 2022-07-11T14:52:42Z

Since the last century and to date, in Mexico, as in other places in Latin America, the State and agribusiness and natural resource extraction companies (national and transnational) have played a preponderant role in the construction of territories in rural contexts. Not infrequently, these rural territories are structured according to governmental and commercial logics and rationalities, to the detriment of rural ethnic populations.
From different disciplines of the Social Sciences, these (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / México, sciences humaines / ciencias humanas, territoire / territorio, campagnes / campo, conflits / conflictos, mines / minería, peuples indiens / pueblos indígenas, résistances / resistencias

Agricultural Day Laborers: Labor Struggles Against Precarious Work and Agribusiness Exploitation

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez — 2022-01-27T14:33:35Z

Among the occupations with very low pay and high risks, agricultural laborers are one of the most numerous jobs, without social rights and with very precarious wages. According to different sources (such as La Jornada), the number of people who, in alarming conditions of poverty and marginalization, work in this type of laboral occupations in Mexico is estimated at about 3 million; and, a large part of them are from the south of the country (Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas), and originating from (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / livres / libros, América Latina, Global, México, United States of America, agriculture / agricultura, exploitation / explotación, migrations / migraciones, migrants / migrantes, monde du travail / mundo laboral, pauvreté / pobreza

Migrants in regional and global contexts of criminalization

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez — 2021-07-07T07:51:35Z

The production of forced cross-border and irregular mobility
Neoliberal globalization, with its characteristic reforms towards the free market and economic deregulation in different regions of the world, has fostered processes of capital accumulation and concentration of wealth, with their respective consequences in the disproportionate increase in inequality and the increase of poverty, with a special presence in the countries of the global south (Robinson and Santos, 2014). These complex (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / Global, pays du Sud / países del Sur, pays du Nord / países del Norte, migrations / migraciones, criminalisation / criminalización, frontières / fronteras, néolibéralisme / neoliberalismo

Testimonies and Migrant Struggles: (In) Mobility in the Americas and COVID-19

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez — 2021-05-25T08:10:27Z

Cross-border migration and mobility policies as dynamics of exclusion
International, “irregular” and cross-border mobilities from the south and towards the global north are one of the features of the dynamics of exclusion related to neoliberal globalization (Brettell and Hollifield; 2015), and they occur in many countries and various regions of the world (CONAPO, 2020 & 2019). Migrations, although they have been linked to various processes of development and spatial and temporal growth (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / América Latina, América Central, México, United States of America, migrations / migraciones, exclusion / exclusión, politiques migratoires / políticas migratorias, frontières / fronteras

Migrant voices and narratives: humanizing deportation

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez — 2021-05-05T15:49:05Z

Between global exclusion and cross-border human mobilities
Massive irregularized and cross-border migrations are one of the most reliable faces of the processes of exclusion from globalization and are present in various regions of the world (UNHCR, 2016; CONAPO, 2020, 2019 and 2020). These human mobilities, although they have had a long historical character and have been related to the expansion of capitalism and colonialism in previous times (Mezzadra, 2012; Delgado et al., 2009; Castles, (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / migrations / migraciones, néolibéralisme / neoliberalismo, United States of America, América Latina, témoignages / testimonios, mondialisation / globalización, informations / noticias

UNITED STATES - Migrant Children Detained and Separated from Their Families

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez — 2019-12-13T13:54:17Z

“From our starting point, all of us who decided to leave our places of origin have lived dark, difficult, complicated, uncertain moments, and although it was a torture to make this journey living in misery, we can say that we are survivors.” Pascal Ustin Dubuisson, Survivors: Citizens of the World
“In these times of exclusion and barbarism, where the gap of inequality and injustice has grown overwhelmingly, political and economic elites do not give up their attempts to obtain their ends (…)

- United States / migrations / migraciones, enfance / infancia, violence / violencia, politiques répressives / políticas represivas, América Central, México, United States of America, frontières / fronteras