Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Colombian region of Urabá, that borders Panama, has gained notoriety for the transit of people moving from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean to North America. Using an ethnographic approach, this article examines how the accounts of local bureaucrats and other actors in the region frame these movements within the influence of “redes,” that is, networks, a vague reference to the hold illegal armed actors and smugglers have over the region. We argue that redes works as a placeholder that simplifies the complexities around these types of migration and gives the phenomenon distorted contours which ignore the agency of people on-the-move. We contrast local accounts of the criminal influence over these movements to those of the travelers themselves who describe a variety of interactions along their journeys, but do not mention networks of this kind.

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敏锐的网络：哥伦比亚乌拉巴人类活动的扭曲

自21世纪初以来，与巴拿马接壤的哥伦比亚乌拉巴地区因从亚洲、非洲和加勒比地区向北美移民的过境而声名狼藉。本文采用人种学方法，研究了该地区当地官僚和其他行为者的叙述如何在“redes”（即网络）的影响下描述这些运动，模糊地提到了非法武装行为者和走私者对非法武装行为者和走私者的控制。地区。我们认为，redes 作为一个占位符，简化了这些类型移民的复杂性，并给出了这种现象扭曲的轮廓，忽略了流动人口的代理作用。我们将当地关于犯罪活动对这些活动的影响的描述与旅行者自己的描述进行对比，后者描述了他们旅途中的各种互动，但没有提及此类网络。