Call for chapters: Edited Volume – Anti-migration contemporary narratives in America and Europe

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By the mid-2010s, the media, governments and local populations in Europe began to acknowledge the concrete dimensions of the migratory influx originating from Africa and the Middle East into member states of the European Union. According to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), within a five-year period (2015-2020), the migrant population in Europe increased by approximately 16%, rising from 75 million to 87 million individuals. Across the Atlantic, during the same period, perhaps with less international visibility, a comparable migratory and humanitarian crisis was emerging. Large-scale movements of Venezuelans, Cubans, and Haitians, combined with the traditional migratory flows from Central America and Mexico, started departing their communities en masse, seeking to escape economic collapse, political repression, and widespread insecurity. While their primary destination was the US-Mexican border, trying to reach the “American Dream,” in recent years, with the arrival of Donald Trump to his second term, entering the US has become even more difficult, therefore millions of Latin American migrants are relocating in neighboring countries such as Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile, creating new diverse migration patterns. By now, according to a recent United Nations report (2024), of the nearly 138 million displaced persons worldwide, approximately 17% reside in Latin America. 

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