Who is a migrant, after all?
agency and historicity in the measurement of the recent international migration in Brazil
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35699/2316-770X.2018.19482Keywords:
Migration, Data sources, BrazilAbstract
This essay discusses the agency and historicity of statistics on international migration produced in Brazil. Its main argument is that the current historical moment creates specific assemblages, formed by an articulation among governmental agencies, universities and research centers in support of the concept of migrant. Therefore it presents the conceptual bases on which attempts are made to measure migration with the focus on census data on migration. It finishes highlighting how the new sources of information that emerge with the advancement of communication and displacement technologies force us to rethink, conceptually, the categories of analysis that we normally use for quantitative studies on the subject.
Downloads
References
ANDERSON, B. Imagined Communities: reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London and New York: Verso Books, 1991.
COURGEAU, D. Méthodes de Mesure de la mobilité spatiale: migrations internes, mobilité temporaire, navettes. Éditions de L’Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques. Paris: L’institut national d’études démographiques, 1988.
CRESSWELL, T. On the Move: mobility in the modern western world. London: Routledge, 2006.
DESROSIÈRES, A. La política de los grandes números: historia de la razón estadística. Barcelona: Melusina, 2004.
POLÍTICA FEDERAL – DPF. Sistema Nacional de Cadastramento de Registro de Estrangeiros. Coordenação Geral de Polícia de Imigração.
FOUCAULT, M. Microfísica do Poder. Rio de Janeiro: Graal, 1979.
FOUCAULT, M. Vigiar e Punir. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1975.
IBGE. Microdados da Amostra do Censo demográfico 2010. Rio de Janeiro: IBGE, 2010.
IGO, S. E. The Averaged American: surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. Cambridge:Harvard University Press,2008.
LATOUR, B. A esperança de Pandora: ensaios sobre a realidade dos estudos científicos. Bauru: EDUSC, 2001.
LÉVY, P. O que é o virtual? Rio de Janeiro: Ed. 34, 1996.
PORTER, T. Trust in Numbers: the Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
RAVENSTEIN, E. The laws of migration. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), London, v. 52, n. 2, p. 241-305, Jun. 1889.
STATE, B; WEBER, I; ZAGHENI, E. Studying international mobility through ip geolocation. In: ACM. Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining. 2013.
SUST, V. Big Data and Tourism: new indicators for tourism management. Barcelona: RocaSalvatella and Telefonica, 2014.
UN Global Pulse. Estimating migration flows using online search data. Global Pulse Project Series,n. 4, 2014.
ZAGHENI, E et al. Inferring international and internal migration patterns from twitter data. In: ACM. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web. [S.l.], 2014.
