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Migration in the Americas

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International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution

Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Population ((IHOP,volume 6))

Abstract

Latin America has a long and rich history of migration within and outside the Western Hemisphere. The continent has been a destination for immigrants from all over the world, and more recently, has been an area that sends millions of migrants to other regions in the world. This chapter presents an overview of the recent scholarship on migration in Latin America. It starts with a historical overview of the major internal and international migration patterns in the region, and describes the recent trends and the demographic profile of the different groups that comprise this migratory flow. Our focus on the relationship between migration and social change in the region allows us to highlight some of the distinctive features and significant findings of the scholarship on Latin American international migration. The discussion that we present in this chapter covers varied issues such as remittances and socioeconomic development, hometown associations, indigenous migration, migration and the growth of cities, and the effects of conflict and violence on migration in the region. Given its numerical importance and its strong presence in the scholarship, we include an overview of the Mexico-U.S. migration system, focusing on trends, figures, sociodemographic characteristics and some areas where future research is needed. We close this chapter with a look into the future, where we suggest some key research questions for current scholars and relevant policy issues. We also discuss what we expect will be the main data needs and measurement discussions for the years to come.

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Notes

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    According to Fox (2006), Mexican indigenous migrants are now found in California , Texas , New York , New Jersey , Florida , North Carolina , Oregon , and Washington .

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    The word bracero derives from the Spanish word for arm, brazo, and it can be loosely translated as “farmhand” (Massey et al. 2002; Calavita 1992).

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    The Department of Homeland Security defines removals as “the compulsory and confirmed movement of an inadmissible alien out of the United State s based on an order of removal. An alien who is removed has administrative or criminal consequences placed on subsequent reentry owning to the fact of the removal.” In contrast, voluntary return is simply “the movement of an inadmissible or deportable alien out of the united States not based on an order of removal.” For the purposes of this chapter, we use deportation and removals/voluntary return interchangeably (Simanski and Sapp 2012).

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Lopez-Ramirez, A., Sánchez-Soto, G. (2016). Migration in the Americas. In: White, M. (eds) International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution. International Handbooks of Population, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7282-2_18

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