Afinal, quem é migrante? agência e historicidade na mensuração da migração internacional recente no Brasil

Abstract

This essay discusses the agency and historicity of statistics on international migration produced in Brazil. Its central argument is that the current historical moment creates specific agencies formed by articulation between government agencies, universities and research centers in support of the concept of migrant. For this, it presents the conceptual bases on which attempts to measure migration are made, with a focus on census data on the phenomenon. It ends by highlighting how new sources of information and analysis tools that emerge with the advancement of communication and displacement technologies force us to conceptually rethink the categories of analysis that we normally use for quantitative studies on the subject.