Entre a Liberdade e a Precarização: Nomadismo Digital e Reconfigurações Turísticas na América Latina

Edgar Romario Aranibar Ramos; Jordana de Souza Cavalcante; Rosy Melany Parizaca Ninaja

doi:10.19137/pys-2025-320206

Edgar Romario Aranibar Ramos University of Alberta https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-8544
Jordana de Souza Cavalcante Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5784-4250
Rosy Melany Parizaca Ninaja Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6678-0746

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/pys-2025-320206

Keywords:

digital nomadism, mobility, precarisation, tourism, Latin America, SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth

Abstract

This study critically examines digital nomadism as a contemporary expression of mobility capitalism in Latin America. Drawing on a theoretical-interpretative approach and a review of recent literature (2020–2025), it explores how discourses of freedom and autonomy conceal new forms of structural dependency, territorial inequality, and labour precarisation. The findings reveal selective mobility regimes and legal gaps that reinforce asymmetries between tourism, work, and global citizenship, exposing the persistence of unequal power relations within the geography of mobility.

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