Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the academic community has developed numerous theories to explain the phenomenon of international migration, as Massey et al. (1998) collected in his famous book «Worlds in motion». However, a majority of studies produced in this field have referred mainly to empirical cases resorting to the use of the main paradigms whose explanations of reality have tended to be reiterated. Breaking with this trend, in recent years, new approaches have been developed, whose interdisciplinary character has allowed to carry out innovative studies that have provided different answers to the most classic questions about international migrations. This research aims to contribute to this trend by presenting a new paradigm from International Relations: the world-ecology. Placing socio-ecological relations as the epicenter of the development of global capitalism, the paradigm created by Jason W. Moore will allow not only to carry out novel investigations of social and political phenomena, but will also open a new theoretical window to connect his postulates with an infinity of study areas. Based on its holistic, historical and transnational perspective, world-ecology offers a new paradigm suitable to explain diverse global phenomena such as climate change, economic crisis or human mobility. Thanks to its multiple theoretical tools, the paradigm presented here offers an infinity of possibilities for the development of critical studies that explain human migrations from prisms until now unexplored. The objective of this article will therefore be twofold. Firstly, it will define the worldecology paradigm by identifying its theoretical roots and its main analytical approaches. Secondly, it will seek to highlight the main contributions that the theoretical constructs of the paradigm offer for the study of migrations.
Ecología-mundo, un nuevo paradigma para el estudio de las migraciones internacionales
Molinero Gerbeau Yoan;avallone gennaro
2020
Abstract
Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the academic community has developed numerous theories to explain the phenomenon of international migration, as Massey et al. (1998) collected in his famous book «Worlds in motion». However, a majority of studies produced in this field have referred mainly to empirical cases resorting to the use of the main paradigms whose explanations of reality have tended to be reiterated. Breaking with this trend, in recent years, new approaches have been developed, whose interdisciplinary character has allowed to carry out innovative studies that have provided different answers to the most classic questions about international migrations. This research aims to contribute to this trend by presenting a new paradigm from International Relations: the world-ecology. Placing socio-ecological relations as the epicenter of the development of global capitalism, the paradigm created by Jason W. Moore will allow not only to carry out novel investigations of social and political phenomena, but will also open a new theoretical window to connect his postulates with an infinity of study areas. Based on its holistic, historical and transnational perspective, world-ecology offers a new paradigm suitable to explain diverse global phenomena such as climate change, economic crisis or human mobility. Thanks to its multiple theoretical tools, the paradigm presented here offers an infinity of possibilities for the development of critical studies that explain human migrations from prisms until now unexplored. The objective of this article will therefore be twofold. Firstly, it will define the worldecology paradigm by identifying its theoretical roots and its main analytical approaches. Secondly, it will seek to highlight the main contributions that the theoretical constructs of the paradigm offer for the study of migrations.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
