Push and Pull Factors of Latin American Migration

Rosas, Victoria Prieto

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12361-5_1

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“…Only in the last decade, about 1.5 million arrived to Spain (The Economist, 2012). This migration process has been named by academics as "Latin-Americanization" of Spain (Hierro, 2016), and has been shaped by two main trends a) from 1990-1999, the appearance of the fl ow and b) 2000-2008, the expansion of the current (Prieto Rosas and López Gay, 2015). Contrary of what usually happens with South American migrants in Spain, Mexican migrants tend to travel to the "Old Continent" largely for educational reasons, to achieve a postgraduate degree or a specialization, as a way to improve their labor conditions when they return to Mexico (Platani, 2012).…”

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“I make Mexico at my home”: social media usage, diasporic discourse, and cultural endurance of Mexicans living in Barcelona, Spain

Plascencia

2020

Revista OBETS

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Mientras que existe una miríada de trabajos centrados en los mexicanos que viven en los Estados Unidos de América, poca atención se ha prestado a las comunidades diaspóricas mexicanas en Europa. El propósito de este trabajo es comprender cómo las redes sociales virtuales sirven de vínculo entre los mexicanos radicados en Barcelona, España y su país de origen, así como la forma en que estos migrantes utilizan las plataformas sociales, no sólo para compartir información para mejorar su vida cotidiana, sino también para preservar su identidad cultural. El trabajo de campo consistió en 17 entrevistas semiestructuradas “in situ” realizadas a mexicanos que viven en Barcelona, cuyas edades oscilan entre 21 y 60 años durante junio y julio de 2016. Los sujetos fueron contactados a través de un grupo de Facebook llamado “Mexicanos en Barcelona” que tiene más de 5,000 miembros. Este grupo está conformado no solo por mexicanos que viven en Barcelona, sino que también incluye a mexicanos en México con el interés de estudiar, viajar o trabajar en la ciudad.

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“I make Mexico at my home”: social media usage, diasporic discourse, and cultural endurance of Mexicans living in Barcelona, Spain

Plascencia

2020

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“…Foreign born people represented 1% of the population at the onset of the century (924,000 people in 2000), reaching its ceiling point 11 years later, when they represented 12% of the population (almost 6 million people). Those from Latin America configured the largest immigration group, being 42% of the total foreign-born population between 2001 and 2006 [4]: this phenomenon was coined by social scientists as the "Latinoamericanization" of immigration flows [5].…”

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The Health Consequences of Neocolonialism for Latin American Immigrant Women Working as Caregivers in Spain: A Multisite Qualitative Analysis

Briones-Vozmediano

Rivas-Quarneti

Gea-Sánchez

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IJERPH

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In Spain, most jobs available for Latin American immigrant women are in intimate labour (caregiving and domestic work). This work is usually performed under informal employment conditions. The objective of this study was to explain how the colonial logic mediates the experiences of Latin American women working in intimate labour in Spain, and the effects of such occupation on their health and wellbeing, using a decolonial theoretical framework. A multi-site secondary data analysis of qualitative data from four previous studies was performed utilizing 101 interviews with Latin American immigrant women working as caregivers in Spain. Three interwoven categories show how the dominant colonial logic in Spain creates low social status and precarious jobs, and naturalizes intimate labour as their métier while producing detrimental physical and psychosocial health consequences for these immigrant caregivers. The caregivers displayed several strategies to resist and navigate intimate labour and manage its negative impact on health. Respect and integration into the family for whom they work had a buffering effect, mediating the effects of working conditions on health and wellbeing. Based on our analysis, we suggest that employment, social, and health protection laws and strategies are needed to promote a positive working environment, and to reduce the impact of caregiving work for Latin American caregivers.

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“…She has assessed the determinants of both return migration and remigration from Spain, but her work neither accounts for internal migration nor distinguishes between remigration and emigration to an unknown destination. Additionally, we pay attention to the patterns of behaviour of Latin American people, because they have represented most of the growth in the foreign population in Spain for nearly a decade, they are a heterogeneous group in respect to dates of arrival and demographic characteristics (Prieto and López-Gay 2015), and, together with Africans, they have led the return migration outflow since 2009. They also contributed to the recovery of internal migration before the recession and continued to play a significant role following the advent of the crisis: between 1998 and 2014, the total number of movements among foreign-born individuals was three times higher than that observed among the native population (Silvestre and Reher 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%