Para o antropologo Ademir Ramos, a chegada desses haitianos em Manaus e o inicio de um terceiro momento historico de mudanca da paisagem democratica da capital, em termos de formacao social, pelo que representa para a presenca negra no Amazonas. Ele lembrou que Manaus viveu momentos semelhantes com a chegada de negros imigrantes, no final do seculo 19, que vieram trabalhar na construcao civil durante o governo de Eduardo Ribeiro, dando origem ao bairro Praca 14.Um segundo momento foi a chegada dos barbadianos, que vieram trabalhar na construcao da Madeira-Mamore e se refugiaram em Porto Velho e Manaus. Essa acolhida e a miscigenacao sao parte da nossa cultura.Ja o geografo Geraldo Alves alerta para a necessidade de o poder publico se preparar para receber esses haitianos e, assim, evitar problemas semelhantes aos provocados pelo exodo rural, como o desemprego, miseria e as invasoes.Sob o ponto de vista do crescimento populacional, a chegada deles e irrelevante se comparada aos que chegam todos os dias do interior. Mas e preciso enxergar esse contingente como novos membros da nossa sociedade.Fonte: http://refunitebrasil.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/expectativa-e-preocupacao-de-voluntarios-com-a-chegada-de-haitianos-em-manaus/ A Revista Travessia, publicada pelo Centro de Estudos Migratorios (Sao Paulo) agora se encontra on-line no seguinte endereco Link direto para a Travessia: http://www.wix.com/missaopaz/modelo-4-missao Para quem quiser entrar em contato com o CEM e adquirir os numeros antigos da revista podem faze-lo pelo seguinte endereco:CEM - Centro de Estudos MigratoriosMissao Paz - Sao Paulowww.missaonspaz.orgRua do Glicerio, 225 - LiberdadeSao Paulo - SP - cep. 01514-000Telefone. 55 11 3208-6227 CALL FOR PAPERSThe 14th Conference of the International Association for Studies in Forced Migration (IASFM) will be hosted by the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India January 6 - 9, 2013. This is the first time that the conference is being hosted in South Asia.Deadline for Submission of Abstracts is **April 30, 2012**Title: Contested Spaces and Cartographic ChallengesThe institutional methods by which governments and the international agencies governed population flows were known as humanitarian methods, and these were unilaterally decided by those who govern, in short they were non-dialogic. Today the two broad issues that need to be reflected upon are - on the one hand mixed and massive flows, provoking desperate governmental methods, on the other hand innovations at a furious pace in humanitarian methods, functions, development of institutions, and principles. The governments have discovered why people move: identifying not only violence, threat of violence, torture, and discrimination, but they move also due to natural disasters, man-made famines and floods, climate change, resource crises, environmental catastrophes, and the like. The humanitarian response has grown accordingly in range. Governments realize the need to gear up not only to emergencies but complex emergencies - a scenario that alludes to a complicated assemblage of factors and elements leading to the emergency situation. At the same time it is clearer than ever that the responsibility to protect the victims of forced migration must be wrenched away from its humanitarian roots, and located anew in the context of rights, justice, and the popular politics of claim making today.Migrants are refusing to be completely obedient to governmental methods and techniques, and