Abstract

AGUDO SANCHIZ, Alejandro  and  ESTRADA SAAVEDRA, Marco. Humanitarian Agents, Collective Services, and Migratory (Im)mobilities: Experiences in Germany and on the Mexico-U.S. Border. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2021, vol.36, n.102, pp.43-81.  Epub Sep 13, 2021. ISSN 2007-8358.

Inspired in political philosophy, many critical studies tend to reduce “humanitarianism” to a sphere cast by the controlling logic of migratory regimes. In this article, the authors observe migratory retention and waiting, as well as the practices aimed at dealing or mitigating them, in the contrasting contexts of Germany and the Mexico-U.S. border. They examine the humanitarian actors as providers of goods and services for managing the (im)mobility of migrants and refugees in those contexts. They look at the political dimensions of these concrete practices, which cannot be reduced to domination, through the notion of modes of governance, used to analyze complex forms of coordination for the joint provision of services by local authorities, civil associations, and international organizations.

Keywords : humanitarianism; migration; asylum; Germany; Mexico-United States border.