Migraciones Internacionales

The Law of Democratic Memory: Reparation for Descendants of Emigrants or Political Objective?

Itzel Magali Eguiluz Cárdenas — 2025-05-22

Brazilian and Colombian Women in Iberian Sexual/Marriage Markets: An Intersectional Analysis

Andrea Souto-García — 2025-05-30

This research aims to analyze the participation of Colombian and Brazilian migrant women in Iberian sexual/marriage markets. It combines a statistical analysis and an ethnography based on 40 women of Spain, Portugal, and Brazil between 2017 and 2022, to follow the strategies generating superpositions between migration policy and ethnosexualization. The results expose a participation typology in mixed marriages according to the social characteristics of migrant women: marriage as a means of regularization assumed by women in a precarious legal-labor situation; the social downgrading experienced by privileged women; and young childless women’s rejection of mixed marriages. The originality of this work lies in the reconstruction, based on the cross-referencing of different variables from origin to destination—maternity experiences, legal status, race, employment, educational level, nationality of the spouses—of the intersectional logic that governs the Iberian sexual/marriage markets.

Between Maps and Typologies: Distribution of International Migrants in Urban Environments of Buenos Aires (2010)

Gabriela Mera — 2025-05-15

The article explores the territorial dimension of the residential settlement of international migrants in the Greater Buenos Aires Agglomerate from a geo-demographic perspective that focuses on their spatial distribution while incorporating the characteristics of the residential environment. For this purpose, a typology is applied to classify city areas based on the period of urbanization and the forms of residential space production. Using the 2010 census as a source, the study examines migration from Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, China, Korea, Italy, and Spain. It is found that these groups settle in diverse urban environments, including informal neighborhoods, socio-economically disadvantaged peripheral areas, and established central areas of the city. From a macro perspective encompassing multiple national origins, the study explores an urban territorial classification that is expected to contribute to analyses of the relationship between migration and socio-urban inequalities.

Efectos de las políticas de contención de la pandemia y disuasión migratoria: perspectivas de migrantes

Juan Antonio Del Monte Madrigal — 2025-04-30

Durante los primeros meses de la pandemia de COVID-19, expertos advirtieron sobre la mayor vulnerabilidad al contagio de los solicitantes de asilo y otros migrantes, especialmente aquellos detenidos en Estados Unidos en tránsito hacia la frontera entre EE. UU. y México o que esperaban en la línea divisoria para cruzar. A pesar de las políticas de disuasión implementadas por Estados Unidos durante la pandemia para reducir los cruces fronterizos, los migrantes continuaron intentando llegar a EE.UU., enfrentando obstáculos cada vez mayores. El análisis de historias digitales grabadas por migrantes para el archivo Humanizando la Deportación revela que, aunque las medidas de contención de la pandemia causaron un daño considerable, ni estas acciones ni la propia enfermedad –que aparece como un factor de fondo en muchas narrativas– lograron reducir significativamente los flujos migratorios en la región.

Transit Migration in Family Units: Central American Women in Contrast with Men

Rosalba Jasso Vargas — 2025-04-15

The purpose is to explore whether the type of migratory mobility of women and men registered by Emif Sur during the 2016-2019 period is related to specific sociodemographic conditions. Through a binomial logistic regression, the probability of traveling without the company of family members or acquaintances is modeled. For this purpose, this survey is used as it is the only one that registers the flow of returnees by Mexican authorities, as well as sociodemographic variables. The results show that having a Honduran nationality, being a woman and having children, increases the chances of displacement with a family member or acquaintance, in contrast to having Guatemalan or Salvadoran nationality, being a man, and not having children. The article provides empirical evidence on how women’s type of mobility is determined primarily by their family role.

Return migration and agricultural productivity: Evidence from Municipalities of Puebla’s North Mountain Range

Alfredo Cuecuecha Mendoza — 2025-03-30

A representative survey of 281 maize and coffee producers from four municipalities in Puebla is used to estimate the effect of return migration on productivity, average costs, and profit margins. Three estimation techniques are employed: logarithmic, semi-parametric, and non-parametric. In general, the results show higher productivity on producers with returnees, as well as lower costs and profit margins for returnees. Analysis on subsamples reveals the importance of market orientation, coffee cultivation, the cultivation of small areas, and the reception of subsidies. In all these cases the results on productivity and costs are confirmed, and higher profit margins are founded. It is also shown the importance of unobserved factors particularly for average costs. The main limitation of these results is that they are only representative of the municipalities and crops studied.

Separación y planes de reunificación familiar después de la deportación a México desde Estados Unidos

Erin R. Hamilton — 2025-03-15

El objetivo del artículo es analizar cómo las familias planean reorganizarse tras la separación forzada de padres e hijos utilizando datos de encuestas que cuantifican los planes de reunificación de padres deportados de Estados Unidos a México entre 2015 y 2019. Se utilizan registros administrativos estadounidenses y datos de la Encuesta sobre Migración en la Frontera Norte de México para estimar el número de adultos mexicanos deportados que fueron separados de sus hijos y sus planes de reunificación. Durante este período, hubo entre 97 000 y 105 000 adultos mexicanos que fueron deportados y separados de sus hijos menores de edad en Estados Unidos. De estos, 39 por ciento planeaba permanecer separado, 20 por ciento reunificarse en EE. UU. y 11 por ciento planeaba reunificarse en México. Además, se discute la necesidad de una mayor discrecionalidad judicial en las audiencias de deportación para proteger el bienestar de los menores migrantes.

Social Capital and Child Migration in Chile: Problems in Generating Social Relationships in Educational Environments

Francisco J. Landeros Jaime — 2025-02-28

The objective of this article is to analyze the difficulties that foreign students face in creating social relationships and bonds of friendship in an educational context with a high migrant presence in Santiago de Chile. The methodological strategy developed is qualitative, with observation and ethnographic interview being the main techniques for obtaining data, which was carried out within two basic education schools. Based on the concept of social capital, this study illustrates how diversity in ethnic elements, such as language, religious beliefs, and skin color, lead to difficulties for social integration in Chilean schools, which in turn generates experiences of violence and discrimination among students. The importance of this work lies in the fact that it provides important elements to understand the problems that migrant children face in Chile.

Central American Migrant Women Communicative Agency in their Transit through Mexican Territory

Juan Antonio Doncel de la Colina — 2025-02-15

From a qualitative approach, the ways in which migrant women from the northernmost countries of Central America exercise their communicative agency during their journey through Mexican territory are characterized. Using in-depth interviews and observations in migrant shelters, it is documented how the communicative action of the migrant women possess an effective resistance to a hostile structural framework, highlighting their capacity to endure their systematic vulnerabilities, moving from subjection to agency. The special attention paid to the key role that communicative action plays during the migration process, and with the problematization posed by the novel concept of “communicative agency,” enriches the field of study focused on female migration, the sense, and meanings that these women give to their experience. The findings invite comparison with similar realities in different contexts.

Oil Extractivism Crisis According to Venezuelan Emigrants in Santiago de Chile between 2017-2020

Flavio Augusto Salgado Bustillos — 2025-01-30

This research aims to analyze the impact of the collapse of the oil extractivism on the life trajectories of Venezuelans who emigrated to Santiago, Chile between 2017 and 2020. Regarding the methodologies, the semi-structured interview was conducted. Through the reflective thematic analysis of 19 interviews, it was found that the crisis of the extractivist model made it difficult to manage the daily life of the subjects and set up a context of departure that promoted a forced displacement of people starting in 2016. The relevance and originality of the research lies in its approach to the Venezuelan crisis from a socio-historical perspective that made it possible to define the political and institutional background in which Venezuelan emigration takes place, to demonstrate the responsibility of the Venezuelan State in the violation of the human rights of its nationals and to characterize the survival mode of Venezuelans who decided to emigrate.

Migration and Exodus in Cuba: Migratory Trends from the 19th Century to the Present

Loraine Morales Pino — 2025-01-15

This article explores the historical context of Cuban migration to the United States in order to analyze the exodus that occurred at the end of 2021. Through the analysis of historical data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) covering the period 1894-2023, migration milestones from the 19^thcentury, such as the 1959 Revolution and the 1994 rafter crisis, are traced. In addition, theoretical perspectives on migration are discussed with the aim of conceptualizing current mass flows as an exodus, characterized by five main features: 1) massive movements, 2) constant movements, 3) defined time span, 4) preeminence of international departures, and 5) response to a trigger. This proposal contributes to a deeper understanding of the migration phenomenon from a multidimensional approach that considers political, economic, social, and historical factors.