Cartagena

Cécile  Blouin

doi:10.22151/politikon.6201

Authors

Cécile Blouin Durham University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4499-1737

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.6201

Keywords:

forced mobilities governance, protection regional regime, UNHCR, Cartagena 40, Latin America

Abstract

CARTAGENA: A legal and political device that refers both to an expanded definition of refugee and a South-South framework of refugee governance cooperation. By scrutinising the recent Cartagena +40 process it questions the articulation of Cartagena into the global management of mobilities from a critical perspective of the refugee/migrant dichotomy. This contribution invites to reflect on how Cartagena functions as a discursive façade that obscures states’ simultaneous deployment of containment, deterrence, and selective inclusion measures to control mobilities.

CARTAGENA: Un instrumento jurídico y político que alude tanto a una definición ampliada de refugiado como a un marco de cooperación Sur-Sur para la gobernanza de las personas refugiadas. Mediante el análisis del reciente proceso de Cartagena +40, se cuestiona la articulación de Cartagena en la gestión global de las movilidades desde una mirada crítica a la dicotomía persona refugiada/persona migrante. La contribución invita a reflexionar sobre la fachada discursiva de Cartagena que oculta el despliegue simultáneo de medidas de contención, disuasión e inclusión selectiva por parte de los Estados para controlar las movilidades.

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