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Before Covid-19, countries in the Americas—deeply unequal spaces historically determined by migrant mobilities—had hardened their migratory policies, provoking the rise in the number of undocumented migrants and limitations on the right to refuge Based on the initial findings of a collaborative and comparative research project encompassing twenty-one countries in the Americas (www inmovilidades org), this article argues that the current pandemic justifies a perverse intersection between health policies and politics to control mobility that has configured a de facto state of exception in migration matters, which only magnifies the existing tension between mobility and control By reviewing press material and policy documents, and complementing those with the testimonies of regional and extra-continental migrants, this article proves that common situations are arising across the Americas that disproportionately affect regional and extracontinental undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, consigning them to daily hyper-precarization and dispossession of rights It also shows that new forms of migrant mobility are emerging The article thus focuses on five intertwined common situations: 1) border closures and increased internal policing;2) suspension or limitation of the right to refuge;3) selective hyper-nationalist aid programmes;4) the adoption of a new anti-migrant legal architecture;and 5) new forms of migrant mobility and struggle As the article suggests, against the current pandemic and hyper-control migrant mobilities are strategies for resistance with spatial effects on national and transnational scales across the continent (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Antes del Covid-19, los paises de las Americas—espacios profundamente desiguales e historicamente determinados por movilidades migrantes—habian endurecido sus politicas migratorias, provocando el aumento del numero de migrantes indocumentados y limitando tambien el derecho al refugio En base a los resultados iniciales de un proyecto de investigacion [End Page 11] colaborativo y comparativo que abarca vientiuno paises de las Americas (www inmovilidades org), este articulo sostiene que la actual pandemia justifica una perversa interseccion entre politicas de salud y politicas de control a la movilidad que ha configurado un estado de excepcion de facto en materia migratoria, que no hace sino magnificar la tension existente entre movilidad y control A traves de la revision de material de prensa y documentos de politica, y complementando con testimonios de migrantes regionales y extra-continentales, este articulo da cuenta de que en las Americas se estan presentando situaciones comunes que afectan de manera desproporcionada a migrantes indocumentados y solicitantes de asilo, confinandolos a una hiper-precarizacion y despojo de derechos cotidiano Tambien muestra que estan surgiendo nuevas formas de movilidad migrante Asi, el articulo se centra en cinco situaciones comunes entrelazadas: 1) cierre de fronteras y aumento de la vigilancia policial interna;2) suspension o limitacion del derecho de refugio;3) programas selectivos de ayuda hiper-nacionalista;4) adopcion de una nueva arquitectura legal antinmigrante;y 5) nuevas formas de movilidad y lucha migrante Como sugiere el articulo, frente a la actual pandemia e hiper-control a las movilidades migrantes son una estrategia de resistencia que produce efectos espaciales a escala nacional y transnacional en todo el continente (Spanish) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Latin American Geography is the property of University of Texas Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )

En este trabajo abordamos las actividades de Arqueología Experimental desarrolladas en las Cuevas de La Araña. Éstas, cubren los campos más significativos de la Arqueología y sus protocolos -de campo y laboratorio-, así como la reproducción de los procesos tecnológicos con que se tuvieron que enfrentar los grupos prehistóricos para su supervivencia, desde el Paleolítico Inferior hasta el Calcolítico. Con la reproducción de las diversas tecnologías se obtiene una información más directa, y se aprecia mejor las dificultades inherentes a cada una de ellas, obteniéndose una visión más ajustada de la propia evolución tecnológica, y los avances conseguidos en cada periodo cultural, The following paper addresses a series ofexperimental archeology activities performed at the Archeological Site ofLa Araña. They cover the most significant aspects ofArcheology and its protocols -includingfield and laboratory work-as well as the replication of technological processes prehistoric groups had to face for their survival, from the Lower Paleolithic to the Chalcolithic. With the reenactment of the various technologies more immediate information is obtained, and the difficulties inherent to each of them are better appreciated, building a more accurate perspective of the technological evolution itself, andthe advances achieved in each cultural period

espanolEl articulo reflexiona en torno a como la movilidad transnacional, de ninos, ninas y adolescentes, NNA, ha tenido y tiene efectos espaciales en la (re)configuracion del corredor migratorio extendido Region Andina-Centroamerica-Mexico-EUA. Aqui se presenta una revision historica sobre los distintos elementos que dan cuenta de la existencia de dicho corredor como un espacio abstracto que se produce y reproduce a partir de distintas dinamicas de movilidad, poder y desigualdad desplegadas por sujetos, instituciones, Estados, organismos no estatales y redes criminales. Proponemos la migracion de NNA como eje critico para pensar dicho corredor, y posicionamos a las multiples manifestaciones y procesos de ese tipo de migracion como respuesta y resistencia a las dinamicas de violencia y desigualdad que estan en la raiz de la existencia misma del corredor extendido. Asi como experiencias nodales para entender las dinamicas de produccion y (re)produccion del espacio supranacional, estatal/institucional y subjetivo/animico. EnglishThis articles looks how the transnational mobility of children and adolescents impacts the spatial re-configuration of the extended migratory corridor of the Andean Region-Central America-MexicoU.S. We present a historical revision of the emergence of this corridor as an abstract space re-produced as a result of diverse dynamics of mobility, power and inequality deployed by subjects, institutions, states, NGOs and criminal networks. We posit that the migration of children and adolescents is of critical importance for thinking and understaning the existence of the extended corridor. We argue that this type of migration should be conceived of as a form of response and resistance in the face of violence and inequality, as well as a productive force in the production and re-production of a supranational, state/institutional and subjective/emotional spaces.

Movimientos migratorios contemporáneos: entre el control fronterizo y la producción de su ilegalidad. Un diálogo con Nicholas De Genova

The aims of the present study were to establish interpersonal victimization rates in a clinical sample and to analyze this sample’s risk of victimization relative to the general population. The sample was composed of 472 adolescents (12–17 years of age): 118 outpatients from public mental health centers and 354 students who were matched by age and sex. Following previous studies, this research defined poly-victimization as four or more victimization types occurring during the previous year. The clinical group was more likely to report sexual victimization (OR = 9.540), conventional crime (OR = 3.120), caregiver victimization (OR = 3.469), witnessing and indirect victimization (OR = 3.466), electronic victimization (OR = 2.809), and poly-victimization (OR = 4.319) compared with the control group. Clinical samples present an increased risk of interpersonal poly-victimization compared with the general population. The influence of poly-victimization on mental health should be considered in the evaluation and treatment of adolescent outpatients.

In the past, children and adolescents who suffered child abuse and neglect in Spain were mostly attended to by private charities. Today, each region in Spain has its own structured child welfare system, which protects vulnerable children by applying measures such as foster or residential care. Previous studies have shown that children and adolescents cared for by the child welfare system are among the most likely to suffer multiple types of victimization or poly-victimization. This chapter presents an original report that analyzes the relationship between poly-victimization and symptom severity among youth cared for in residential facilities. The sample consisted of 95 adolescents (51.6% males and 48.4% females), aged between 12 and 17 (M = 14.49, SD = 1.64) recruited from short- and long-term residential centers. The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire and the Youth Self-Report were used to assess interpersonal victimization experiences and psychopathology, respectively. Poly-victimization was found to be a significant predictor of clinically severe internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Our findings highlight the importance of regular assessment of the ability of residential care facilities to protect children and adolescents against re-victimization, since the accumulation of multiple types of victimization places adolescent poly-victims at a high risk of developing serious mental health problems.