Levantados do chão, portadores de utopias: migração como processo social multidimensional

Abstract

This article intends to summarize some practical, theoretical and methodological issues that express the multidimensional character of migration. Such questions concern the way the link between migration, colonization and work; the political and economic arrangements between countries and migrants that forge new routes and migratory flows, displacing the traditional axis of South - North migration to new migratory perspectives such as South - South; the response capacity of migrants and their associations in the face of denial of rights and the precariousness of public services that could enable their reception and dignity. Without pretending to exhaust the summarized questions, the text points to the possibility, doubly utopian and concrete, of migrants and their organizations as carriers of sociocultural and democratic exchanges