Presentation of the Dossier

Abstract

Human mobility is a complex phenomenon that has intensified in the 21st century, both quantitatively and from the point of view of the various ways in which it has been processed and manifested. The migration phenomenon has been a constant preoccupation of research in several areas of knowledge, both inside and outside the Social Sciences. However, what has attracted attention in the last decades, due to the new communication technologies, as well as the shortening of space-time, are the subjective and objective dynamics of being constituted as subject in these paths. Considering the increase of human displacements, in their different forms, we aim, for this dossier, to aggregate works that analyze and bring empirical elements about the social and political processes of these displacements, be it from the thematic, theoretical point of view, as well as new approaches to these issues. In this sense, this issue of the journal is dedicated to works that aim to understand the mobilities and their different displacements in their multiple facets, as well as to works that deal with social interactions, processes of differentiation and alterity arising from migratory processes, as well as those that relate migration to the world of work, the migratory project, and family and religious strategies. We have also selected papers devoted to analyzing aspects of international displacement that have gained prominence in the recent world scenario, insofar as they have dealt with transnational dynamics and transmigrants moving between two or more societies. We were very pleased to receive a large number of articles and it was hard work to select only a few. This points us to the growth of this area of research in Brazil and to how it is sedimenting, from a theoretical and methodological point of view, in several areas of Human Sciences.