Cartografias e governança do desaparecimento de migrantes na América Central e México

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Andre Vito Benites
• Orientador(a): Marconi, Claudia Alvarenga
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Governança Global e Formulação de Políticas Internacionais
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Desaparecimento de migrantes; Cartografia crítica; Governança migratória; América Central; México
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Migrant disappearances; Critical cartography; Migration governance; Central America; Mexico
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA::POLITICA INTERNACIONAL
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/43932

This paper analyzes the disappearance of migrants in Central America and Mexico through a critical approach to cartography, focusing on the visual representations produced by the International Organization for Migration, the Jesuit Migrant Service, and the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. The study examines how these institutions use maps to document and shape narratives about disappearances and how this affects the governance of the issue. The theoretical foundation is based on Jenny Edkins’ reflections on disappearance as a political process that erases the identity of victims and on the critique of the dehumanization of migrants through quantitative representations. The analysis shows that, although they provide visibility, cartographies reinforce structures of migration control, while social and family movements create their own representations to resist invisibility. It is concluded that, in addition to technical solutions, more humanized and collaborative governance is needed to deal with the compl