Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

At the start of this century, the need arose within the European Union to incorporate the integration of third-country nationals into the political agenda as a central pillar of EU migration policy. This study is based on the concept that while EU institutions are allowed to establish broad policy lines and, to a certain extent, influence member state strategies, integration policy is an eminently national responsibility, causing significant differences to exist between member-state practices. This work will examine the main EU actions related to active or civic integration with the aim of comparing the results of integration policies on European and national levels through the analysis of legislation and other legal instruments established by both the EU and Spain. This study seeks to discover a paradigmatic model that the European Commission has not yet considered since its work in this area is in an initial phase. The characteristics of the Spanish model—where immigration was quite welcome during economic boom times but where integration policies are being gradually implemented in the middle of and  economic crisis far removed from those times—are key to explaining the conclusions reached in this study.

Using a multi-sited ethnography, this article analyzes from a historical perspective the processes of identification, social marking, and justification put into play by various Uruguayan immigrants in Buenos Aires in order to distinguish their migratory paths from others’. This article examines the “discourse of brotherhood” within the interdependency of bilateral relations between Argentina and Uruguay, the activation of certain national narratives, and the development of and reasoning behind Uruguayans’ migration trajectories from the middle of the 20th century to date.

This article analyzes the perceptions of health teams concerning Peruvian and Bolivian migrant women living in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. The research consisted of a qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study based on 12 in-depth, semi-structuredinterviews. It documents various health teams’ views regarding the two migrant groups as well as their opinions about the factors that influence the women’s access to and use of public health systems during pregnancy and childbirth. The article emphasizes the importance of incorporating a historical, political, and cultural approach to migrant health care that can recover migrants’ individual histories and their specific needs in terms of health care access and cultural practices.

The central purpose of this article is to analyze recent trends and patterns that characterize mobility for the purpose of education at the tertiary level as a global phenomenon in the general context of the current migration of skilled workers.Under this framework, analytical perspectives on mobility for the purpose of education are discussed and central points in the current debate about the nature and implications of this type of mobility are identified. The analysis is based on statistics on international mobility of students in tertiary education provided by the Institute for Statistics of the United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The detailed analysis of this flow in both sending and receiving countries shows a geography of this global phenomenon characterized by a hegemonic concentration in receiving countries of the north and the predominance of Asian countries in the global contest to obtain the highest professional qualifications meeting international standards.

This article attempts to approach the subjective dimension of immigration through  Tahar Ben Jalloun’s fictional works. It shows that literature constructs a view of reality that, being subjective by its very nature, highlights the most intimate and personal aspects of experience and by so doing is able to fathom human complexity. We begin by examining the relevance of personal experience in the social process from the perspective of methodological individualism and of literature as a resource for human intelligibility. In the second part, we draw on significant fragments of Tahar Ben Jelloun’s literary work in order to analyze the feelings woven into the fabric of his immigrant characters’ narrative identities, such as desire, loneliness, longing, fear, and guilt.

This study focuses on the career paths of migrant Cuban women in Spain and, in particular, attempts to determine whether there are elements that help or differentiate their access to the job market. To this end, an anthropological study was made using an ethnography-based qualitative approach. Between 2010 and 2012,a total of 31 in-depth interviews were conducted. The main results reveal that the fact that women are well represented in the Cuban job market, their good training, and their ability to develop strategies to cope with adverse situations are all elements of considerable importance. In turn, it is pointed out that current Cubanmigratory regulations, to a certain extent, cause Cubans to plan their migration with no return in mind; this often distances them from job sectors involving reproductivework.

This paper provides a detailed analysis of financial remittances to families in rural Andean Ecuador. Five different types of transfers are identified and analyzed: family maintenance remittances, migrants’ savings, debt repayment, emergency money, and gift money. In each case, the dollars families receive as remittances have various meanings. In order to fully understand migrants’ money transfers to their families, the relationships between senders and receivers, which include mutual— and sometimes diverging—expectations and obligations, need to be taken into account. These relationships are complex, and shaped by gender, age, and kinship considerations.

Using mixed methods, in this paper we hold that the relationship between international migration and religious change can be analyzed from localities of origin as strategic sites of observation. Thus, examining the relationship between migration and religious change means simultaneously considering the two-way impact, of migration on religious change, and of the role of religious identifications on the formation of migrant networks. From the case studies in this research, we conclude that international migration is an important resource, which acquires two modalities: on the one hand, it reinforces the traditional religious practices of believers and on the other, it promotes religious change, specifically religious conversion. It is, in short, the perception of diversity and the sense of religious otherness that are transformed by the migration experience.

This article analyzes the dilemma of identity and belonging in the children of Oaxacan indigenous immigrants in the United States, through the study of three dimensions of ancestry: the place of origin, community life and the indigenous language. The article documents various courses of the ethnicization process among young mixtec, zapotec and triqui, born or grown in the United States; methodologically is based on three workshops with activists of the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations (FIOB) and twenty in-depth interviews. The findings show that each of the dimensions analyzed has a different role in the construction of identity according to certain factors such as schooling, English language and political or community participation of young people.