Tendencias recientes de la migración en América latina

Abstract

Migration in the contemporary world is striking not only due to its magnitude but also to the impact in both the destination and the origin of the migrating populations. In Latin America, the migration pattern has been substantially modified. The main internal flows in the area’s countries are not only rural-urban, or rural-rural, since recently there has been urban-urban and urban-metropolitan migration, and also the reverse. This can be decisive in the pattern of emerging urbanization in the area. International migrations are not only labor flows, limited to movement between neighboring countries, but have been exceeded by drifts towards the North of the continent or even beyond. The determining factors of these migrations are increasingly complex. This has caused the development of new theoretical propositions, as well as new methods and analysis techniques in the research of specific processes.