This article aims to analyze certain manifestations of «humanitarianism» in the control and regulation of health mobilities in the Argentine context. At an empirical level, it investigates one of the political uses of the health visa, from the figure of «patients under medical treatment» contained in the Migration Law, based on the transcontinental mobility experience of a girl from Sub-Saharan Africa who entered Argentina in the mid-2010s under this migratory category. Through a qualitative methodology that combines participant observations and interviews developed between 2016 and 2019, the article shows the humanitarianization work through which people or groups with greater restrictions on mobility, in the framework of the reconfiguration of the “South American regime of migration and borders”, come to be produced as deserving of humanitarian treatment, as well as the tension...

This article aims to analyze certain manifestations of «humanitarianism» in the control and regulation of health mobilities in the Argentine context. At an empirical level, it investigates one of the political uses of the health visa, from the figure of «patients under medical treatment» contained in the Migration Law, based on the transcontinental mobility experience of a girl from Sub-Saharan Africa who entered Argentina in the mid-2010s under this migratory category. Through a qualitative methodology that combines participant observations and interviews developed between 2016 and 2019, the article shows the humanitarianization work through which people or groups with greater restrictions on mobility, in the framework of the reconfiguration of the “South American regime of migration and borders”, come to be produced as deserving of humanitarian treatment, as well as the tension...

This article aims to analyze certain manifestations of «humanitarianism» in the control and regulation of health mobilities in the Argentine context. At an empirical level, it investigates one of the political uses of the health visa, from the figure of «patients under medical treatment» contained in the Migration Law, based on the transcontinental mobility experience of a girl from Sub-Saharan Africa who entered Argentina in the mid-2010s under this migratory category. Through a qualitative methodology that combines participant observations and interviews developed between 2016 and 2019, the article shows the humanitarianization work through which people or groups with greater restrictions on mobility, in the framework of the reconfiguration of the “South American regime of migration and borders”, come to be produced as deserving of humanitarian treatment, as well as the tension...

This article reviews the relationship between humanitarianism  and migratory control in international migration policies in Argentina. We  analyze the processes of ambivalent categorization of migrant subjects as  victims and/or threats, through three humanitarian categories that appear  in the regulation of international migrations: refugees, migrants undergoing  medical treatment, and labor migrants. The methodology employed is  qualitative and analyzes: statements of international organizations; national  regulatory frameworks related to migration, refuge, and the transplantation  of organs and tissues; institutional discourses; laws; official reports; and  public commentaries by government officials. 

En este artículo abordamos la relación entre humanitarismo y control migratorio en las políticas de migraciones internacionales en Argentina. Para dar cuenta de ella, analizamos los procesos de categorización ambivalente de los sujetos migrantes como víctimas y/o amenazas a través de tres figuras humanitarias que intervienen en la regulación de las migraciones internacionales: los refugiados, las personas bajo tratamiento médico y los trabajadores migrantes. La metodología propuesta es de tipo cualitativo y recupera declaraciones de organismos internacionales, marcos normativos nacionales sobre migraciones, refugio y trasplante de órganos y tejidos, discursos institucionales, leyes, informes oficiales, intervenciones públicas y entrevistas a funcionarios.