Personas en situación migratoria en tiempos del capitalismo neoliberal tardío: por una tipología crítica del “sujeto migratorio”
People in Migratory Situations in Times of Late Neoliberal Capitalism: Towards a Critical Typology of the “migrant subject”

Summary/Abstract: This article is a theoretical essay whose objective is first to describe and analyze the facets of the “migrant subject” as a typology of people in situations of mobility today, and then to establish a critique based on Marxist dialectical questioning of the triadic relationship between migration, labor, and capital. The main thesis of this exploration is to present the figure of the “migrant subject” as a character in the narrative of neoliberal capitalism on contemporary migration. This narrative conceals another reality that has to do with the international growth of the productive forces to remedy the crises of capital derived from its historical difficulty in extracting surplus value on the one hand, and with the constitution of a migratory fetishism on a regional and global scale that shapes the individual and collective decisions and projects of people in migratory situations on the other. Thus, although the typology of the “migrant subject” has empirical value for approaching contemporary migratory realities, it is not exempt from criticism that highlights its partial subjectivity, that is, its fetishistic character that tends to conceal the materiality of the relationship between capital, labor, and migration.

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