Social Reproduction and Migrant Labor: Dependency, Value-Extraction, and the Politics of Urban Space Across the Americas

• Grant number: 25/02072-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2025
• End date: July 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Jose Gilberto de Souza
• Grantee: Jose Gilberto de Souza
• Principal researcher abroad: Nikolai Alvarado
• Institution abroad: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Migration is a complex phenomenon with profound historical, economic, political, social, and spatial dimensions. While the 20th century was known as the "age of migration", the 21st century has seen an unprecedented acceleration in global population movements. This project aims to analyze the exploitative conditions of migrant labor in this current context. To identify the conditions of settlement based on the urban socio-spatial transformations they produce and the differences between these processes, considering the particularities of South-South and South-North migration. (AU)