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The Colombian Diaspora: Settling and Integration

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International Migration, Transnational Politics and Conflict

Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship ((MDC))

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This chapter concludes Part II of the book, dedicated to exploring in some depth the migration and integration stories of Colombian migrants in Europe and their wider transnational links. This serves as a contextualisation of the migrant communities studied, prior to the analysis of their transnational politics in the rest of the text. As well as having different reasons for migrating and choosing a destination, Colombian migrants in Spain, the UK and Belgium have varied experiences of arrival and settlement. However, they also share concerns and difficulties around the issues of immigration status, access to the labour and housing markets, as well as health and discrimination. The recent economic crisis in Europe highlights the vulnerability many Colombian migrants in Europe still face.

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    For more on this in the UK case, see Bermudez 2003; McIlwaine 2007b, 2005; The Refugee Council 1997.

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    See CEAR (Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado), http://www.cear.es/que-hacemos/cifras-y-estadisticas, data accessed 3 September 2015. For more on Colombian asylum seekers in Spain, see Clavijo Guevara and Perdomo Blanco 1999; Restrepo Vélez 2006.

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    Anastasia Bermudez

  2. Department of Social Anthropology, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

    Anastasia Bermudez

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Bermudez, A. (2016). The Colombian Diaspora: Settling and Integration. In: International Migration, Transnational Politics and Conflict. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53197-1_6

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