This article aims to analyze the tensions and reconfigurations that operate between illegalization, temporary borders and daily life of Haitians in Argentina, in connection with larger regional processes linked to the political government of Caribbean and African “extrarregional” migration in the recent South American context. I argue that the control over the modes of “permanence” of migrants of Haitian origin in Argentina represents a paradigmatic case that allows exposing regional trends in progress during the 2010s, based on the political exclusion of the refuge, the existence of differential criteria of residence, the reinforcement of illegalization mechanisms and the multiplication of temporary borders. In addition, I maintain that one of the main manifestations of these political processes is the “legal intermittency” referring to the conflictive and changing dynamics ...

This article aims to analyze the tensions and reconfigurations that operate between illegalization, temporary borders and daily life of Haitians in Argentina, in connection with larger regional processes linked to the political government of Caribbean and African “extrarregional” migration in the recent South American context. I argue that the control over the modes of “permanence” of migrants of Haitian origin in Argentina represents a paradigmatic case that allows exposing regional trends in progress during the 2010s, based on the political exclusion of the refuge, the existence of differential criteria of residence, the reinforcement of illegalization mechanisms and the multiplication of temporary borders. In addition, I maintain that one of the main manifestations of these political processes is the “legal intermittency” referring to the conflictive and changing dynamics ...

This article aims to analyze the tensions and reconfigurations that operate between illegalization, temporary borders and daily life of Haitians in Argentina, in connection with larger regional processes linked to the political government of Caribbean and African “extrarregional” migration in the recent South American context. I argue that the control over the modes of “permanence” of migrants of Haitian origin in Argentina represents a paradigmatic case that allows exposing regional trends in progress during the 2010s, based on the political exclusion of the refuge, the existence of differential criteria of residence, the reinforcement of illegalization mechanisms and the multiplication of temporary borders. In addition, I maintain that one of the main manifestations of these political processes is the “legal intermittency” referring to the conflictive and changing dynamics ...