Migrants And Political Change In Latin America

Author : Luis F. Jimenez
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781683400516

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Migrants and Political Change in Latin America by Luis F. Jimenez Pdf

This book reveals how migrants shape the politics of their countries of origin, drawing on research from Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador and their diasporas, the three largest in Latin America. Luis Jiménez discusses the political changes that result when migrants return to their native countries in person and also when they send back new ideas and funds—social and economic “remittances”—through transnational networks. Using a combination of rich quantitative analysis and eye-opening interviews, Jiménez finds that migrants have influenced areas such as political participation, number of parties, electoral competitiveness, and presidential election results. Interviews with authorities in Mexico reveal that migrants have inspired a demand for increased government accountability. Surveys from Colombia show that neighborhoods that have seen high degrees of migration are more likely to participate in local politics and also vote for a wider range of parties at the national level. In Ecuador, he observes that migration is linked to more competitive local elections as well as less support for representatives whose policies censor the media. Jiménez also draws attention to government services that would not exist without the influence of migrants. Looking at the demographics of these migrating populations along with the size and density of their social networks, Jiménez identifies the circumstances in which other diasporas—such as those of south Asian and African countries—have the most potential to impact the politics of their homelands.

Author : Luis F. Jiménez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 168340064X

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Migrants and Political Change in Latin America by Luis F. Jiménez Pdf

In 'Migrants and Political Change in Latin America', Luis Jiménez looks at how migrants are changing the politics of their country of origin. It argues that migrants can do this in three distinct ways: through social remittances, economic remittances, and the presence of return migrants.

Author : Adela Pellegrino,International Organization for Migration
Publisher : International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114922391

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Migration from Latin America to Europe by Adela Pellegrino,International Organization for Migration Pdf

Migration to Europe from Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) has grown rapidly over the last decade. Most of the flows are directed towards southern European countries, although other European countries have also seen significant increases. Widespread poverty and economic hardship caused by the recession in LAC, together with the tightening of visa regimes in the United States following September 11, 2001, have been a major contributing cause of increased flows. The most recent data in major destination countries, such as Spain, show that the largest increases occurred over the past two to three years. The existence of what is now a significant LAC diaspora in Europe may itself be a driving force for further migration, and flows are likely to continue increasing in the future. The demographic profile of LAC migrants in Europe shows a young population with high rates of labour force participation, relatively high levels of education and strong remitting behaviour. LAC migration is highly feminized, with women constituting over half of all LAC migrants. Irregular LAC migration is significant and human trafficking also causes serious concerns. As Europe seeks to recruit increasing numbers of highly skilled migrants, including from the LAC region, concern over brain drain from those regions is also rising. Within the context of strengthened LAC-EU cooperation, rising migrant flows represent both opportunities and challenges for policy makers.

Author : International Court of Justice
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213630082

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Migration from Latin America to Europe by International Court of Justice Pdf

Part of the IOM Migration Research Series, this study reveals various trends and policy challenges relating to migration from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, which has grown rapidly over the last decade. These increased flows calls for strengthened cooperation between the two regions on migration issues, specifically the effective integration of migration issues into the ongoing development cooperation activities and political dialogues.

Author : Andreas E. Feldmann,Xóchitl Bada,Stephanie Schütze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319893846

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New Migration Patterns in the Americas by Andreas E. Feldmann,Xóchitl Bada,Stephanie Schütze Pdf

This volume investigates new migration patterns in the Americas addressing continuities and changes in existing population movements in the region. The book explores migration conditions and intersections across time and space relying on a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach that brings together the expertise of transnational scholars with diverse theoretical orientations, strengths, and methodological approaches. Some of the themes this edited volume explores include main features of contemporary migration in the Americas; causes, composition, and patterns of new migration flows; and state policies enacted to meet the challenges posed by new developments in migration flows.

Author : Craig L. Arceneaux,David Pion-Berlin
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822972808

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Transforming Latin America by Craig L. Arceneaux,David Pion-Berlin Pdf

Using detailed case studies, this text provides a means of understanding the political change in Latin America. It offers insight into central issues such as economic reform, human rights, and immigration.

Author : César Álvarez Alonso,José Ignacio Hernández
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319995510

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Latin American Geopolitics by César Álvarez Alonso,José Ignacio Hernández Pdf

This edited volume analyzes how migration, the conformation of urban areas, and globalization impact Latin American geopolitics. Globalization has decisively influenced Latin American nationhood and it has also helped create a global region with global cities that are the result of the urbanization process. Also, globalization and migration are changing Latin America's own vision as a collective community. This book tackles how migration triggers concerns about security, which lead to policies based on the protection of borders as a matter of national security. The contributors argue that economic regionalization-globalization promotes changes in the social and economic geography which refer to social phenomena, the dynamic of social classes and their spatial implications, all of which may impact economic growth on the region. The project will appeal to a wider audience including political scientists, scholars, researchers, students and non-academics interested in Latin American geopolitics.

Author : Ana Margheritis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317437857

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Migration Governance across Regions by Ana Margheritis Pdf

Migration policies are rarely effective. Examples of unintended and undesirable outcomes abound. In Latin America, very little is known about the impact and long-term sustainability of state policies towards emigrants. Following a world-wide trend, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil have developed new institutions and discourses to strengthen links; assist, protect and enfranchise migrants, and capture their resources. As an adaptation of governmental techniques to global realities, these policies redefine the contours of polities, nations, and citizenship, giving place to a new form of transnational governance. Building upon field research done in these five states and two receiving countries in the last decade, Ana Margheritis explains the timing, motivations, characteristics, and implications of emigration policies implemented by each country, as well as the emergence of a distinctive regional consensus around a post-neoliberal approach to national development and citizenship construction. Margheritis argues that these outreach efforts resemble courting practices. Courting is a deliberate expression of the ambivalent, still incipient, and open-ended relationship between states and diasporas which is not exempt of conflict, detours, and setbacks. For various reasons, state-diaspora relations are not unfolding into stable and fruitful partnerships yet. Thus, she makes "diaspora engagement" problematic and investigates to what extent courting might become engagement in each case. Studying emigration policies of five Latin American countries and migrant responses in Southern Europe sheds light on the political dynamics and governance mechanisms that transnational migration is generating across regions. It illuminates possible venues to manage multiple engagements of migrants with societies at both ends of their migration journey and unveils the opportunities for states and non-state actors to cooperatively manage of migration flows.

Author : Celeste Cedillo González,Julieta Espín Ocampo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030648190

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Human Displacement from a Global South Perspective by Celeste Cedillo González,Julieta Espín Ocampo Pdf

This book focuses on inclusion and governance agenda on the issue of migration within a framework of South-South cooperation. Increasing migration waves present an extraordinary and complex challenge to the international community. In the existing literature, migration processes have been described mostly from Western perspectives, and although these perspectives are analytically relevant, they lack the advantage of a broader interpretation. Taking a Global South approach, this volume gives voices to authors from several Latin American and Latin European universities to offer a more dynamic discussion of the challenges of migration in the twenty-first century. The authors take a broad perspective of global migration, with a focus on case studies from the Global South that highlight Latin American and North African experiences in particular.

Author : Karen Silva-Torres,Carolina Rozo-Higuera,Daniel S. Leon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000440164

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Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America by Karen Silva-Torres,Carolina Rozo-Higuera,Daniel S. Leon Pdf

Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America provides fourteen contributions to understand, from a multidisciplinary perspective, processes of socio-political reconfigurations in the region from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s. The Left Turn was the regional shift to left-of-center governments and social movements that sought to replace the neoliberal policies of the 1990s. This volume aims to answer the overarching research question: how do state and societal (national and transnational) actors trigger and shape processes of political and socio-economic transitions in Latin America from the rise to the decline of the Left Turn. The book presents case studies in which transitions are moments of change and uncertainty, which one cannot predict their definitive outcomes. The various case studies presented in the book place actors and processes in specific historical and socio-political contexts, which are influenced directly or indirectly by the historical trajectory of Latin America’s Left Turn. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of Social and Political History, Latin American History, and those interested in the social and political developments in Latin America more broadly.

Author : Fabiola Pardo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319640822

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Challenging the Paradoxes of Integration Policies by Fabiola Pardo Pdf

This book traces Latin American migration to Europe since the 1970s. Focusing on Amsterdam, London, and Madrid, it examines the policies of integration in a comparative perspective that takes into account transnational, national, regional and local levels. It examines the entire mechanism that Latin American migrants confront in the European cities they settle, and provides readers with a theoretical framework on integration that addresses the concepts of multiculturalism, interculturality, transculturality and transnationalism. This work is based on rich qualitative data from in-depth interviews, focus groups and participant observation complemented by a substantial documentary and legislative analysis. It reveals that current policies are limited and migrants are excluded in most of the formal venues for integration. In addition, the book shows the many ways that migrants negotiate the constraints and imperatives of integration. In Western Europe today, immigrants are largely assuming the entire responsibility of their integration. This book provides readers with much needed insight into why European integration policies are not responding to the needs of immigrants nor to society as a whole.

Author : Charles Butterworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521237130

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Latin American Urbanization by Charles Butterworth Pdf

Originally published in 1981 as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, Latin American Urbanization presents an in-depth look at a process of social change in an important region of the Third World. In this study, Professors Butterworth and Chance concentrate on the rural-urban migration of the lower classes and the adaptation of migrants to city life. They examine the rural, peasant and proletarian communities from which the migrants have come and to which they often remain loyal even after many years of urban residence. Drawing together in a coherent manner studies from several disciplines such as demographic, sociocultural, economic and political dimensions of urbanization, this book will interest a variety of scholars in the social sciences and the humanities.

Author : Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030073246

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The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema by Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez Pdf

The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin America proposes a cinematic cartography of contemporary Latin American horror films that take up the idea of the American continent as a space of radical otherness, or monstrosity, and use it for political purposes. The book explores how Latin American film directors migrate foreign horror tropes to create cinematographic horror hybrids that reclaim and transform monstrosity as a form of historical rewriting. By emphasizing the specificities of the Latin American experience, this book contributes to broad scholarship on horror cinema, at the same time connecting the horror tradition with contemporary discussions on violence, migration, fear of immigrants, and the rewriting of colonial discourses.

Author : Ana Margheritis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1908857641

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Shaping Migration Between Europe and Latin America by Ana Margheritis Pdf

Author : Peter Peek,Guy Standing
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003827023

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State Policies and Migration by Peter Peek,Guy Standing Pdf

First published in 1982, State Policies and Migration is a study on migration-related government action. This book consists of analyses of various rural reforms and industrial strategies in eight Latin American and Caribbean countries. The emphasis of the studies has been determined by the particular context of the country or region concerned, but in general the studies fall into three categories. The first four chapters are primarily concerned with land reforms, however partial. The next two chapters focus on general industrialisation strategies, considering their impact on urbanisation and the attempts made to achieve population redistribution within the context of the longstanding process of industrialisation. Finally, the third section consists of two very different cases of attempts to alter population distribution in the context of transforming the socio-economic structure. This book will be of interest to students of economics, agriculture, history, public policy and migration studies.