Política migratoria argentina reciente: función simbólica del derecho y derechos humanos

Executive Decree 70/2017 profoundly modified the legal regime for migration in Argentina. This article aims to analyze the use of this legal reform as a symbolic instrument of criminal policy and contrast them with human rights standards. The methodological approach combines legal analysis with the theoretical study of the reform. The work shows that the decree sought to link immigration and criminality and convey a message of firmness from the State in the fight against crime. As well as provide an update of the debate on the legal reform considering what happened subsequently. It is concluded that the reform has increased the margins of state discretion, generating a greater degree of legal insecurity for migrants. Although limited to a specific national case, the research may have theoretical implications for the study of similar cases.

Construcción identitaria de la inmigración en el paisaje madrileño: Lavapiés y San Diego

This article explores comparatively the strategies of construction and identity negotiation that the new ethnic and linguistic groups have reflected in Lavapiés and San Diego, two areas characterized by the highest percentage of international immigration, within Madrid. After the social and historical contextualization of both territories —to provide a more complete picture of its evolution— two collections of images or cartographies containing samples related to diversity in each territory will be analyzed from a methodological approach based on the exploratory analysis of the linguistic landscape. These parcours will allow to analyze the construction of multiculturality and otherness, which also goes hand in hand with seemingly opposite phenomena: from gentrification to a new definition of folk identity.

Remesas y agencia económica de las universitarias en el Valle del Mezquital

The article’s objective is to analyze the economic agency acquired by university students through the international remittances support network. During September and October 2019, five indepth interviews were conducted with female law students from the Actopan Higher School of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo. Young women’s households receive remittances whose function is to help them economically, a network built through the family connection with their maternal uncles. The student’s mothers are sorors which allows young women to obtain economic agency. This analysis contributes to the knowledge about one of the effects of remittances on households in the Mezquital Valley, Mexico. The results of the study only focus on one region of the country.

Duración del desempleo y la migración en México ante la crisis financiera

This article examines structural breaks in the effect of the unemployment duration for the population of Mexico on the probability of migrating, both internal and internationally. Data from the National Survey of Occupation and Employment for 2007, 2008, and 2010 is used, and estimations are made from both binary and multinomial response models. Furthermore, a Chowtype test is used to estimate structural breaks in the unemployment duration effect after the financial crisis, and sensitivity tests are carried out using different specifications of the migration and unemployment duration variables. The results show that after the crisis the unemployment duration effects on the probability of migrating have been reduced, leading to restrictions on the free mobility of the labor factor

¿Las raíces en el lado equivocado de sus vidas? Jóvenes retornados y deportados desde Estados Unidos a Guanajuato

Thisarticle analyzes the experience narrated by young migrant returnees and deportees from the United States, settled in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Based ontheirexperience, we discuss the explanatory limits of the perspectives of transnationalism and return migration. The cases analyzed allow us to determinethat when migrating from North to South,young people undergo an adaptation process supported by family networksthat nonetheless constitutea double-edged sword: while facilitating their integration in Mexico, family membersalso provide their first encounter withdiscrimination, which theywill later experience in other contexts. Although initially,young people forced toreturn find themselves caged in by these intangible resources, they also overcome them by expanding their identity repertoires and reconstructingtheir sense of belonging to Mexico. This workseeksto highlight the need to develop a research agenda focused on young migrants, to whom it is difficult to extrapolate existing analytical perspectives.

Niñez, migración y derecho a la educación. Vulnerabilidades y consecuencias en la movilidad Estados Unidos-Oaxaca, México

This article aimsto analyze the extent to which the right to education of immigrant and returned children from the United States to Oaxaca, Mexico,is guaranteedafter the Trump administration increased containment of immigration policies with significantrepercussions for adult Mexicans and their offspring. A qualitative methodology integrated by ethnographic observation techniques with and without participation, interviews, discussion groups,and documentary analysis has been used. The main findings show that the infringement of the children’sright to education increases their vulnerability with a decisive impacton their educational, social,and labor present and future. The originality of the study lies in the approach to the consequences of return onchildhoodand their right to education in the state of Oaxaca, not attended enough by migratory studies, which is also a contribution.

Crisis de la caravana de migrantes: Algunas realidades sobre el discurso público en Twitter

The study aims to exploreTwitter content tofind out the confrontational structure of onlinepublic discourseduring the migrant caravan crisisof2018. To carry out this approach, anexploratory quantitative method was chosen to analyzea representative universe of the messages published on the platform from January1 to February 15, 2019. The findings indicate —among others—that the public discourse on the caravan is transnational, widely stimulated by the media,and for the most part, expresses neutral sentiment. However, the articulation of the media landscape and the rhetorical structure of the migrationcrisis seem to exhibit similarities and differences between countries of receiving tradition and transit. For thelatter, it is suggested to extendthe research to othertechnological means involved in the construction/deconstruction of the migratory narrative.

Migración venezolana reciente en Argentina: una política migratoria selectiva en el contexto del giro migratorio restrictivo

The purposeof this articleis to describe instruments and actions that constitutethe selective public policy towards Venezuelan migrants in Argentina between 2017-2019, in the context of the restrictive turn of the immigration policy underPresident Macri’s administration(2015-2019). Through thechange of normative instruments and public policy actions, complemented by a qualitative approach, we aimto verify the existence of a selective immigrationpolicy, discover the selection criteria applied,and indicatethe tensions between general and selective immigrationpolicy.

The Impact of Labor Migration on Human Capital Development

The growing role of labor migrationis one of the most notabletrendsininternational migrationflows.Thismigration has become an important factor ineconomic development and a source of the increasing interdependence of countries and regions intoday’sglobalizedworld. It impactsmigrants’ country of origin as well as the destination country, chiefly affecting human capital in both groups of nations.This article systematizesthe positive and negative effects of labor migration focusing on humancapitalwhile suggesting asystem of indicators characterizing such effects.Special attention is paid to the analysis of policies related to suchmigration. This study explains how countries of origin and destination must carry outeffective and fair managementof labor migrationto make the most of itsbenefits at an international level.

Efectos de la violencia sobre las tasas de emigración interna municipal en México: 1995-2015

This article explores the relationship between the increase of violence in Mexico and the rising level of internal municipal emigration before, during, and after the so-called Mexican Drug War, which started in 2007. Through a linear regression and multinomial logistic models, it is shown that violence has had a positive and significant effect on the increase of internal emigration rates, particularly in municipalities with the highest internal emigration rates during the 2005-2010 period. In addition, the effect of violence tendsto be greater on female emigration rates compared to males. This indicates the increase of forced internal displacement in Mexico due to violence in recent years. However, more studies are needed to shed light on forced displacement and the effects of high violence levels on internal and international migration.