As cartografias críticas das migrações

mapear, corporificar e costurar memórias e processos migratórios da América Latina

Abstract

This article analyses the roles of critical counter-mapping as instruments for visualizing, denouncing, and transforming migrant landscapes in Latin America. Based on an interdisciplinary approach that combines critical geography, migrations and memories, we understand maps not as neutral representations, but as political and epistemic devices capable of making migrant bodies, trajectories, and experiences (in)visible. We contrast traditional cartography-Cartesian, state-centric, and supposedly neutral-with counter-cartographic practices that make migrant wanderings visible in an embodied, affective, and politically active way. In this sense, we revisit Latin American experiences, such as the memories of displaced women in Colombia, disappearances of migrants between Central America and Mexico, and the experience of Chilean exile in Germany, highlighting regional efforts in the production of counter-cartographies and emphasizing them as a methodological and analytical tool for resistance, protest, and rearticulation of migrant spatialities.