Abstract:

The paper aims to critically review current discussions on (in) security and borders, having as a theoretical axis the so-called Critical Border Studies. The debates on international security, during the last decade, focus on borders, human mobilities and the flows that cross the territories as the bases from which to organize/manage the guarantees of national, regional and global security. A series of concepts is key to analyzing the border security issue in South America (AS): biopolitics, thanatopolitics, and necropolitics. The importance and recovery of classical geopolitics to think about the border issue since the pandemic is also reviewed. The objective is to address the current debates on international securities and (in)securitization of borders, with emphasis on the contributions from the ECF, to analyze the trends in AS in the post-pandemic. The progressive incorporation of the parameters of the global North for border management (securitization and criminalization of migrants) is observed in the subregion, despite the fact that this is a regional space qualified as a zone of peace and with a high level of integration and cooperation.

Keywords:
borders; security; biopolitics; South America