Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
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description: Migraciones is an interdisciplinary academic journal published by the University Institute for Migration Studies (IUEM) at Comillas Pontifical University. It aims to publish quality research that delves into the study of human mobility in open access, both in Spanish and English, prioritising articles that address critical and current issues by applying the most advanced methodologies. It is published twice a year (December and June). Issue 0 was published in December 1996. The journal Migraciones follows an open-access publication system, whereby both the publication and reading of works are exempt from fees. All published content is fully available for free and immediate consultation and download on the journal's website. Migraciones is indexed Scopus , Latindex, InDICEs CSIC, Emerging Sources Citation Index, and others. First decision in 3 days Acceptance rate of 18.6% 103,092 article views (2024)
publisher: Universidad Pontificia Comillas
language: en
publication name: Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
issn: 1138-5774
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items: Survey Research as a Tool for Studying Migration in Latin America
items: Migration, Extractivism, and Necropolitics in the Peruvian Amazon: The Trafficking of Women in Neo-extractive Enclaves
items: Alessandra Galimberti Price (2025). Arte y diáspora
items: Racialisation, Discrimination, and Ethnic Identity among Spanish Gitanos: The Test of Mixedness
items: Introduction: Towards a Racial Turn in Spanish Scholarship on Migration and Diversity
items: Deconstructing Existing Narratives: A Critical Reassessment of Climate-Driven Migration Dynamics in Africa and Namibia
items: For a Latin American Political Ecology of Climate (Im)mobilities
items: Framing Climate Mobility: A Discourse Analysis of Spanish Newspapers
items: Landscapes of Dispossession: Extractivism and Forced Displacement Triggered by Tailings Dams
items: Illicit International Necropolitical Economy and Forced Migration: Circular Human Exploitation at the Externalized US Borders
items: Tackling, encouraging or ignoring? The outmigration of transnational domestic care workers on the political agenda in Poland
items: The Impact of Citizen (In)Security and Immigration on Support for Democracy: Observational Evidence from Ecuador (2020-2024)
items: Can We Apply Current Theories on Attitudes to Immigration Developed in the Global North to the Latin American Context?
items: Using international surveys to measure political transnationalism: the civic competencies of the Swiss population residing in Latin America
items: Return to Migrate Again: Reintegration to Uruguay and Re-Emigration of the Uruguayan Population to Spain
items: Transforming Destinations: The Impact of Integration Interventions on the Mobility Decisions of Displaced LGBTIQ+ Persons in Mexico
items: Imaginary Wor(l)ds: A Creative Methodology to Explore Future Imaginaries of Climate Change-Induced (Im)mobilities
items: Rethinking Migrant Masculinities: Pakistani Men in Barcelona
items: Inequalities in Employment by Migratory Origin and Gender: An Analysis of the Spanish Labor Market Based on the 2023 Labor Force Survey
items: Dynamics and Neighbourhood Relationships in Local Multicultural Contexts in Spain: A Comparative Reflection
items: Ambivalences: Between Joy and Challenge, Educational Stories of Venezuelan Migrant Children
items: Navigating Dependency: Analyzing Recruitment Practices and Challenges in Malaysia’s Construction Industry
items: Migrant Topology and Savings Strategies in Commodity Cities: A Case Study of the Mining City of Antofagasta
items: Digital Practices and Affective Experiences Among Mexican Women Asylum Seekers Trapped in Tijuana, Mexico
items: Assessing the Consistency of the New Migration and Change of Residence Statistics with the Residential Variation Statistics and Migration Statistics
items: The Policy Making on Venezuelan Migratory Policies in Peru 2017-2022: Processes, Bifurcation Points and Drivers
items: Joan Lacomba Vázquez y M.ª Isolda Perelló Carrascosa (2022). Movilidad y migraciones en el escenario mediterráneo
items: Yasmine Shamma, Suzan Ilcan, Vicki Squire y Helen Underhill (eds.) (2022). Migration, Culture and Identity
items: Childhood on the Move: Redefining Children’s Agency Between Resilience and Vulnerability
items: Racializing the Spanish Borderland. Neocolonial Rule, Patriarchal Lineage and the New Limpieza de Sangre

Survey Research as a Tool for Studying Migration in Latin America
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subject: Presentación
  topic: section
creator: Elena Sánchez-Montijano
creator: Pablo Nicolás Biderbost Moyano
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-29
publication date: 2026-01-29
starting page: 1
ending page: 18
doi: 10.14422/mig.i65.2026

Migration, Extractivism, and Necropolitics in the Peruvian Amazon: The Trafficking of Women in Neo-extractive Enclaves
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description: This article examines migration flows to neoextractivist enclaves within the framework of necropolitics and the political ecology of migration. It explores how degraded territories, shaped by illegal mining, human trafficking, and the sex trade, function as both forces of expulsion and attraction. The theoretical framework integrates concepts of accumulation by dispossession and extractive biopolitics to understand how state control, labor precarization, and violence create differentiated mobility regimes, particularly affecting migrant women. The study focuses on Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon, a region characterized by environmental degradation and territorial control through illicit economies, despite the state's claims of biodiversity protection. Using qualitative methods, including document analysis and interviews with local actors, the research reveals that historical configurations of territorial exploitation influence migration patterns in these enclaves. The article contributes to the political ecology of migration by demonstrating how extractive economies and structural inequalities shape migration flows in necropolitical contexts.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: neo-extractive enclaves
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subject: sexual exploitation
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subject: necropolitics
  topic: keywords
creator: Sofía Chacaltana Cortez
creator: Hatsumi Otsu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 25
doi: 10.14422/mig.23441.034

Alessandra Galimberti Price (2025). Arte y diáspora
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subject: Reseñas de libros
  topic: section
creator: Gema Gómez Álvaro
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-29
publication date: 2026-01-29
starting page: 1
ending page: 3

Racialisation, Discrimination, and Ethnic Identity among Spanish Gitanos: The Test of Mixedness
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description: In Spain, and in Europe in general, research on racism and racialisation has mostly focused on foreign-born immigrants. Much less attention has been given to national ethnic minorities, in particular to Gitanos (Spanish Roma), the longest-established and largest ethnic minority group in the country, and also one of the most discriminated-against minority groups throughout Spanish history. This article presents research that has applied the study of mixedness (i.e., mixed couples and their descendants), a sociocultural phenomenon that is thought to “dilute” differences and destabilise social boundaries, to investigate the persistence of the social stigmatisation and racialisation of Spanish Roma. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and 81 in-depth interviews with Roma/non-Roma couples, their descendants, and community representatives, this study, shows that even intermarried Gitanos and Spanish-born descendants of Gitano/non-Gitano mixed couples are stigmatised as being outsiders and experience everyday racism, as well as intragroup prejudices, all of which affect their identity choices, social interactions, and everyday lives. The study also concludes that individuals have different strategies for coping with racism and discrimination and that Gitano identity (romanipen) remains dynamic and resilient—strengthened, not weakened—through mixing, a finding that challenges essentialist understandings of ethnic identities and ethnic minority groups.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: Spanish Roma/gitanos
  topic: keywords
subject: intermarriage
  topic: keywords
subject: ethnic identity
  topic: keywords
subject: mixed race
  topic: keywords
subject: racism
  topic: keywords
subject: discrimination
  topic: keywords
creator: Dan Rodríguez-García
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-10-15
publication date: 2025-10-15
starting page: 1
ending page: 30
doi: 10.14422/mig.22022.021

Introduction: Towards a Racial Turn in Spanish Scholarship on Migration and Diversity
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description: This special issue aims to contribute to the debate on race, racialisation and racism in Spain from a perspective that combines theoretical analysis and empirical studies. We take a systemic understanding of racial relations as our point of departure and focus on the Spanish context. Our objective is twofold: First, we want to challenge a persistent “colour-blindness” and a widely spread silence about race in European societies (Lentin, 2018; Song, 2018; El Tayed, 2021), as well as in Spain (Rodríguez-García, 2022; Rodríguez-García et al., 2021), which has permeated research on migration, diversity, interculturalism and ethnic relations. As Omi and Winant (1994, p. 159) pointed out “opposing racism requires that we notice race [… and] that we afford it the recognition it deserves and the subtlety it embodies.” This will contribute to a deeper understanding of the processes that shape and reconfigure racial categories. Furthermore, it will advance knowledge on the concept of “race” and its intersections with other social categories, such as class, gender, and migration status, highlighting how these intersections fundamentally shape social interactions, power structures, and various forms of inequality. Second, with this special issue we intend to provide a collection of empirically based research about racialisation processes, racial categories and racial relations in the case of Spain. The contributors to this special issue are Spanish and international scholars based in Spain who conduct their research at the forefront of the ongoing “racial turn” in Spanish academia (see, e.g. Hellgren, 2025; Suárez-Navaz & Suárez, 2024; Rodríguez-Reche & Cerchiaro, 2023; Hellgren & Bereményi, 2022; Rodríguez-García, 2022; Hellgren & Gabrielli, 2021). All of the contributors place race, racialisation and racism at the core of migration and minority studies, both in the Spanish context and internationally. This endeavour is necessary to look transversally to the processes of other…
subject: Presentación
  topic: section
subject: Race
  topic: keywords
subject: Racialisation
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subject: Systemic racism
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subject: Interculturality
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subject: National minorities
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creator: Cristina Rodríguez-Reche
creator: Zenia Hellgren
creator: Lorenzo Gabrielli
creator: Dan Rodríguez-García
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-10-13
publication date: 2025-10-13
doi: 10.14422/mig.y2025.i64

Deconstructing Existing Narratives: A Critical Reassessment of Climate-Driven Migration Dynamics in Africa and Namibia
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description: This paper critically examines dominant narratives of climate and environmental migration in Africa, focusing on Namibia. It highlights the limitations of international definitions, which often frame mobility through crisis and displacement, obscuring local agency and adaptive practices. Drawing on mixed-methods fieldwork (2017-2023) in northern and central Namibia, through interviews, observations, and policy analysis, the study reveals that migration is shaped by the intersection of environmental stressors with socio-economic inequality, gender dynamics, and cultural traditions. In Namibia, seasonal and adaptive mobility patterns challenge deterministic crisis models, instead reflecting community resilience and strategic planning. Literature and policy reviews further show that rigid terms like climate refugee risk oversimplifyng complex drivers of movement. The study calls for a reframing of climate migration as a context-specific, adaptive strategy, and urges inclusive policies that integrate local knowledge and address underlying structural vulnerabilities. Migration should be seen as part of resilience-building, not just emergency response.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: climate migration
  topic: keywords
subject: environmental mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: Namibia
  topic: keywords
subject: agency
  topic: keywords
subject: resilience
  topic: keywords
creator: Bruno Venditto
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
starting page: 1
ending page: 27
doi: 10.14422/mig.22986.028

For a Latin American Political Ecology of Climate (Im)mobilities
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description: Research on the climate change-human mobility nexus remains largely dominated by agendas shaped by the Global North, leading to power inequalities in practices, policies, and knowledge. Critical scholarship has identified political ecology as a valuable framework for addressing these problems. In this paper, we argue that Latin American Political Ecology (LAPE) provides unique insights for addressing this challenge. Drawing on four case studies from the Andes and the Amazon, we explore how LAPE can inform a research agenda on climate (im)mobilities. We identify three areas in which this convergence could be particularly fruitful: the implications of climate (im)mobilities for food sovereignty; the more-than-human character of the communities affected by climate-related hazards; and the role of extractivism in shaping climate (im)mobility in rural areas. We also highlight the prevalence of coloniality of knowledge in climate (im)mobilities governance, reflecting on the positionality of the climate (im)mobilities researchers.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: climate (im)mobilities
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin American political ecology
  topic: keywords
subject: extractivism
  topic: keywords
subject: coloniality
  topic: keywords
subject: indigenous and peasant communities
  topic: keywords
creator: Jorge Enrique Forero
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 22
doi: 10.14422/mig.23528.033

Framing Climate Mobility: A Discourse Analysis of Spanish Newspapers
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description: In a world increasingly affected by climatic changes, climate mobility has become a topic of growing relevance in the geopolitical context. Spain, as an external border of the European Union with historical ties to regions highly exposed to climate impacts, such as North Africa, offers a critical case study for examining these dynamics. This article applies framing theory to qualitatively analyse how Spanish media construct climate mobility and how both people and spaces are represented. Drawing on 52 articles published between 2021 and 2023 in the six most-read newspapers in Spain, four predominant frames are identified: quantitative-alarmism, securitization, humanitarianism, and vulnerability. Media discourses depict migrants as passive victims or abstract figures, while spaces are portrayed as “in crisis” or “under threat.” Only the vulnerability frame provides a more nuanced perspective by linking exposure to climate change with socio-demographic risks. Yet even here, responsibilities of the Global North remain underdeveloped.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: climate mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: climate change
  topic: keywords
subject: framing theory
  topic: keywords
subject: media
  topic: keywords
subject: Spain
  topic: keywords
creator: Carolina Rebollo-Díaz
creator: Pilar Morales-Giner
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
starting page: 1
ending page: 26
doi: 10.14422/mig.23558.029

Landscapes of Dispossession: Extractivism and Forced Displacement Triggered by Tailings Dams
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description: Historically dependent on mining extractivism, Chile faces escalating socio-environmental conflicts driven by large-scale mining. In this context, tailings dams not only concentrate toxic waste but also generate dynamics of forced displacement that affect human and extrahuman communities. From an ecopolitical perspective and drawing on Actor–Network Theory, this study analyzes the expansion of Minera Los Pelambres’ El Mauro tailings dam—the largest in South America—showing how it reconfigures life landscapes in the Norte Chico. Through critical cartographies, the research participatively reconstructs socio-ecological memories of displacement and latent migration, mapping resistances and reterritorializations in Villa El Mauro, Caimanes, and Pupío. The tailings dam is introduced as an agent of extractive expansion that produces processes of accumulation by dispossession and new forms of displacement and uncertainty associated with reterritorialization in the Capitalocene.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: mining
  topic: keywords
subject: tailing dams
  topic: keywords
subject: forced displacement
  topic: keywords
subject: extractivism
  topic: keywords
subject: socio-ecological conflicts
  topic: keywords
subject: memory
  topic: keywords
creator: Álvaro Mercado Jara
creator: Daniela Cecilia Salgado Cofré
creator: Javiera Pavez Mena
creator: Carla Saavedra Ferrari
creator: José Tapia Díaz
creator: Pablo Mansilla Quiñones
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 29
doi: 10.14422/mig.23402.031

Illicit International Necropolitical Economy and Forced Migration: Circular Human Exploitation at the Externalized US Borders
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description: This article presents the idea of Human Circular Exploitation (HCE) as an analytical tool that articulates the necropolitics and international illicit political economy frameworks to show how the bodies of migrants are absorbed into illegal economic circuits, turning them simultaneously into commodities and consumers. Migrants are repeatedly caught in criminal economies tied to drug trafficking, state corruption, and even the tourism industry, where their value gets recycled through ongoing cycles of trafficking, deportation, kidnapping, and forced reintegration into smuggling networks. Far from being disposable, migrant bodies are reused as mobile resources within a logic of accumulation sustained by visa, deportation, and immigration detention dynamics. The functioning of HCE is analyzed in the context of forced migration at the Mexico-Guatemala border in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: forced migration
  topic: keywords
subject: criminal political economy
  topic: keywords
subject: organized crime
  topic: keywords
subject: asylum legislation
  topic: keywords
subject: capitalism
  topic: keywords
creator: Ariadna Estévez
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 20
doi: 10.14422/mig.23408.030

Tackling, encouraging or ignoring? The outmigration of transnational domestic care workers on the political agenda in Poland
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description: Although the topic of attracting EU mobile workers to transnational care sectors has received considerable attention, the perspective of sending countries, particularly with regard to policies concerning the departure of care workers, has not yet been analysed empirically or theoretically. This article aims to address this gap by tracing the agenda-setting process regarding the temporary outmigration of workers from Poland to the care sector abroad between 2004 and 2019. Drawing on qualitative empirical material in the form of 60 expert interviews, the article is framed by Kingdon's (1995) multiple streams model. The analysis confirmed that the mobility of Polish workers in the home care sector was not on the political agenda prior to the pandemic. Key stakeholders in addressing this phenomenon as both an opportunity and a challenge, and in proposing administrative solutions, are care agencies that send workers, and associations representing the interests of the care industry in Poland.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: transnational care work
  topic: keywords
subject: emigration
  topic: keywords
subject: Poland
  topic: keywords
subject: intra-EU mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: intermediaries
  topic: keywords
subject: agenda-setting
  topic: keywords
subject: migration policy and politics
  topic: keywords
creator: Kamil Matuszczyk
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-11-25
publication date: 2025-11-25
doi: 10.14422/mig.23092.024

The Impact of Citizen (In)Security and Immigration on Support for Democracy: Observational Evidence from Ecuador (2020-2024)
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description: In Latin America, although the impact of contextual determinants on democratic disaffection has been investigated, the nexus between anti-immigrant attitudes, perceptions of citizen (in)security, and support for democracy has not been systematically examined. The goal of this article, therefore, is to contribute to filling this gap through an analysis of the Ecuadorian case—a country marked by institutional crises and a massive inflow of immigrants. The study relies on data from the Latinobarómetro (2020 and 2023, N=1200 each) and post-stratified online surveys (2021 and 2024, N=1289 and N=597). The methodological approach combines Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regressions and Structural Equation Models (SEM) in order to identify both direct effects and relationships among latent variables. The findings indicate that perceived victimization has a limited impact, whereas punitive attitudes and pluralism are positively associated with support for democracy. By contrast, immigration does not exert significant direct effects, although it is linked to perceptions of security and institutional trust.
subject: Special Issues
  topic: section
subject: immigration
  topic: keywords
subject: democracy
  topic: keywords
subject: citizen security
  topic: keywords
subject: public opinion
  topic: keywords
subject: Ecuador
  topic: keywords
creator: Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero
creator: Diego Alejandro Casas-Ramírez
creator: Leticia Orcés Pareja
creator: Alejandro García Borja
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.14422/mig.23031.001

Can We Apply Current Theories on Attitudes to Immigration Developed in the Global North to the Latin American Context?
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description: Migration within the Global South is as significant as that to the North, yet most studies on immigration attitudes remain Northern-centered. This limits our understanding of how receiving contexts shape public perceptions. While the Global North receives culturally distinct migrants, Latin America experiences intra-regional flows characterized by cultural similarity, inequality, and limited state capacity. This article tests ethe conditional applicability of realistic competition theories to the Latin American context by analyzing attitudes toward Venezuelan immigrants in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru using OLS regression models based on Latinobarómetro2020 data. Results show that perceptions of fiscal and distributive competition are the strongest predictors of immigration attitudes, followed by perceptions of job competition, whereas individual characteristics have weaker effects. In contexts of inequality and institutional scarcity, competition is understood primarily as a struggle over public resources rather than a cultural threat, underscoring the need to contextualize Northern theories in Global South settings.
subject: Special Issues
  topic: section
subject: Venezuelan migration
  topic: keywords
subject: immigration attitudes
  topic: keywords
subject: survey
  topic: keywords
subject: South America
  topic: keywords
creator: Alejandra Zuleta Buschmann
creator: Cristián Doña-Reveco
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.14422/mig.22989.026

Using international surveys to measure political transnationalism: the civic competencies of the Swiss population residing in Latin America
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description: This article quantitatively analyses political transnationalism among Swiss citizens in Latin America through civic competence indicators. Using multivariate techniques (OVERALS and HJ-Biplot), it explores the links between sociodemographic and migratory variables and political behavior. The findings of a sample of 539 valid responses reveal a strong civic predisposition but limited electoral engagement, partially supporting the political exposure theory. We proposed a political transnationalism index as a metric to assess diasporic engagement from Global North expatriates in Southern contexts.
subject: Special Issues
  topic: section
subject: political transnationalism
  topic: keywords
subject: civic competences
  topic: keywords
subject: Swiss diaspora
  topic: keywords
subject: multivariate analysis
  topic: keywords
creator: Pablo Biderbost
creator: Guillermo Boscan Carrasquero
creator: Nerea González García
creator: Ana Nieto Librero
creator: Maria da Luz Ramos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 31
doi: 10.14422/mig.22968.025

Return to Migrate Again: Reintegration to Uruguay and Re-Emigration of the Uruguayan Population to Spain
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description: This article examines the relationship between the processes of reintegration of migrants in their country of origin and the decision to return to emigrate after their return, taking Spain and Uruguay as contexts of (re)emigration and return respectively. Through 27 multisite semi-structured qualitative interviews with people who experienced return migration from Spain to Uruguay, it concludes that remigrations to Spain after the return migration are associated with a combination of difficulties of economic and social reintegration with a more favorable structural assessment of living conditions in the Iberian country. The analysis shows how citizen insecurity, absent in initial migration, is incorporated as a decisive factor in recent remigrations. It is argued that reintegration processes are dynamic, reversible and mediated by unfavorable return contexts, which questions the effectiveness of current policies.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: return migration
  topic: keywords
subject: reintegration
  topic: keywords
subject: remigration
  topic: keywords
subject: Spain
  topic: keywords
subject: Uruguay
  topic: keywords
creator: Martín Koolhaas Gandós
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 23
doi: 10.14422/mig.22829.022

Transforming Destinations: The Impact of Integration Interventions on the Mobility Decisions of Displaced LGBTIQ+ Persons in Mexico
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description: This article explores the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced persons in (transit through) Mexico, examining how they decide whether to stay or move on, and how civil society organizations (CSOs) shape those decisions. Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico, this article analyzes three intertwined dimensions: the specific vulnerabilities shaping LGBTIQ+ migration; the role of CSOs in reshaping agency and future planning; and Mexico’s evolving role in the regional migration landscape. The article critiques deterrence-based migration governance and highlights the emotional and bureaucratic complexities LGBTIQ+ migrants face, caught between transnational border regimes and local systemic violence. Conceptually, it challenges traditional ideas of destination, intention, and agency in migration trajectories, framing Mexico as a site of “forced immobility,” where decisions emerge from structural coercion, not choice. The article challenges linear migration models and calls for inclusive, person-centered integration efforts rooted in resilience and belonging rather than deterrence.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: LGBTIQ+ displaced persons
  topic: keywords
subject: transit migration
  topic: keywords
subject: integration
  topic: keywords
subject: mexico
  topic: keywords
subject: country of forced immobility
  topic: keywords
creator: Ester Serra Mingot
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-04
publication date: 2025-11-04
doi: 10.14422/mig.22857.018

Imaginary Wor(l)ds: A Creative Methodology to Explore Future Imaginaries of Climate Change-Induced (Im)mobilities
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description: In recent decades, migration and climate change have emerged as two of the most urgent moral and political challenges confronting the twenty-first century. Predominantly portrayed in mainstream media and political discourse within the Global North as exceptional and extraordinary phenomena, the intersection of migration and climate change is increasingly framed through securitization narratives. This article critically examines the social imaginaries surrounding climate change-induced (im)mobilities, with particular attention to the extent to which these narratives are articulated in terms of justice. Empirically, the study draws on a corpus of 78 fictional stories produced by academics, media professionals, and activists, collected via the “Imaginary wor(l)ds” method during participatory seminars. This creative, practice-led methodology invited participants to collaboratively imagine and narrate future scenarios of climate (im)mobilities, aiming to bridge academic research with public engagement and foster new imaginaries through collective storytelling. The approach is grounded in the recognition that creative writing can disrupt dominant knowledge systems and open discursive space for alternative interpretations. The aim was to reflect on whether an effective collaboration between science, media, and activism might generate counter-narratives for climate (im)mobilities. The stories were analyzed using a typology of frames—victims, security threats, adaptive agents, and political subjects—to identify recurring patterns and the extent to which justice-oriented perspectives emerge. By integrating insights from mobility justice and climate justice frameworks, the study opens a path on how creative, participatory methodologies can reframe public and policy discourses on climate migration, foregrounding justice-oriented approaches over securitized paradigms. The article concludes by underscoring the importance of decolonial and intersectional perspectives in shaping fu…
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: narratives
  topic: keywords
subject: frames
  topic: keywords
subject: climate crisis
  topic: keywords
subject: (im)mobilities
  topic: keywords
subject: social imaginaries
  topic: keywords
creator: Elena Giacomelli
creator: Stefania Peca
creator: Pierluigi Musarò
creator: Paola Parmiggiani
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 23
doi: 10.14422/mig.22812.023

Rethinking Migrant Masculinities: Pakistani Men in Barcelona
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description: This article presents ongoing findings from a research project on the migration experiences of Pakistani men in Barcelona, focusing on the transformations and continuities in the construction of masculinities. Based on a qualitative approach, the study combines participant observation with 24 semi-structured interviews conducted between 2022 and 2024 with Pakistani men and women from the community. Preliminary results reveal, on the one hand, the persistence of the breadwinner mandate as a central axis of masculine identity; and on the other, the emergence of everyday practices that reflect more flexible and context-specific forms of masculinity. Furthermore, the migratory journey is often narrated as a personal sacrifice that reinforces symbolic validation of manhood. This article contributes to the fields of gender and migration studies by shedding light on the complex identity reconfiguration processes faced by male migrants in transnational contexts shaped by structural inequalities.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: Masculinity
  topic: keywords
subject: Pakistanis
  topic: keywords
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: Barcelona
  topic: keywords
creator: Casandra Hojman
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-10-20
publication date: 2025-10-20
starting page: 1
ending page: 21
doi: 10.14422/mig.22447.019

Inequalities in Employment by Migratory Origin and Gender: An Analysis of the Spanish Labor Market Based on the 2023 Labor Force Survey
type: item
description: This paper analyzes the impact of migratory origin on situation of immigrants in the Spanish labor market, considering the length of residence. In addition, it explores to what extent the effect of origin is affected by gender. The study uses data for the year 2023 from the Spanish Labor Force Survey. The results obtained by estimating binary logistic regression models show the inequalities marked by these two factors -and their interaction- in different labor dimensions. The probability of not working in some groups is lower than that of natives, but this does not translate into a better position in the labor market. The generalized situation of non-EU immigrants is marked by employment in low-skilled jobs and the prevalence of temporary contracts. In addition, immigrant women are more exposed to unfavorable conditions and this vulnerability varies according to origin.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: gender
  topic: keywords
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: employment
  topic: keywords
subject: labor market segmentation
  topic: keywords
subject: temporary employment
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana Patricia Crespo-Rodríguez
creator: Alba Teresa González-Esteban
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
doi: 10.14422/mig.22356.017

Dynamics and Neighbourhood Relationships in Local Multicultural Contexts in Spain: A Comparative Reflection
type: item
subject: Presentación
  topic: section
creator: Francisco Torres Pérez
creator: Paloma Gómez Crespo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-03-12
publication date: 2025-03-12
starting page: 1
ending page: 14
doi: 10.14422/mig.y2025.i62

Ambivalences: Between Joy and Challenge, Educational Stories of Venezuelan Migrant Children
type: item
description: This research explores the educational narratives and school experiences of Venezuelan migrant children. Using a qualitative, hermeneutic-interpretative approach and the biographical-narrative method, the life stories of Venezuelan children aged 9 and 11 were collected. Through social cartographies and drawings, they depicted their educational trajectories. The findings are interpreted through the metaphor of a taut rope, with knots, vibrations, and anchor points symbolizing the complexity of migratory experiences. The study underscores the urgent need to strengthen social support within school contexts and to adapt learning processes to the realities of migrant childhoods. It concludes with a call to rethink inclusion through intercultural pedagogical practices, curricular personalization, teacher training, and educational policies that recognize migrant children as active subjects whose experiences redefine the school as a space of mediation, not assimilation.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: childhoods
  topic: keywords
subject: migrations
  topic: keywords
subject: educational trajectories
  topic: keywords
subject: life stories
  topic: keywords
subject: interculturality
  topic: keywords
creator: Edgar Eduardo Zambrano Solano
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-19
publication date: 2026-01-19
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.14422/mig.22216.032

Navigating Dependency: Analyzing Recruitment Practices and Challenges in Malaysia’s Construction Industry
type: item
description: Since the 1980s, Malaysia’s construction industry has faced a critical labor shortage, leading to a heavy reliance on foreign workers and irregular employment practices. This study examines the complex relationship between recruitment policies, industry practices, and regulatory frameworks perpetuating this dependency. Using a mixed-methods approach that includes an extensive literature review and a case study of two construction firms in Peninsular Malaysia (accredited as Grade 3 (G3) and Grade 7 (G7)), the paper identifies key factors contributing to the reliance on low-skilled foreign labor which include high recruitment costs, complicated bureaucratic processes, and exploitative hiring practices. The findings indicate that while current legal frameworks and bilateral agreements aim to uphold fair hiring practices, specific challenges persist within the recruitment landscape, leading to inefficiencies and informal outsourcing practices. This research underscores the urgent need for comprehensive policy reforms and collaborative initiatives to improve labor rights and eliminate exploitative practices.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: Construction industry
  topic: keywords
subject: exploitative industry practices
  topic: keywords
subject: labour dependency
  topic: keywords
subject: recruitment practices
  topic: keywords
subject: irregular foreign workers
  topic: keywords
creator: Rodziana Mohamed Razali
creator: Syamsul Badrin Mohshin
creator: Intan Nadia Ghulam Khan
creator: Zarina Othman
creator: Sarah Adibah Hamzah
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-10-20
publication date: 2025-10-20
doi: 10.14422/mig.22215.020

Migrant Topology and Savings Strategies in Commodity Cities: A Case Study of the Mining City of Antofagasta
type: item
description: Studies on migration and money have focused on understanding the impact and dynamics of remittances in the places and families of origin. However, there is a gap in the understanding of the monetary strategies of migrants in host contexts. From the intersection of literature on migration, money flows, and topology, this paper asks how the monetary strategies of migrants configure an unequal appropriation of space in mining cities. From a case study of a Chilean extractive territory and the application of in-depth interviews, three types of migrants are identified according to their monetary strategies and relationships with space: migrants categorized as cross-border, expectant, and consolidated. From the monetary strategies of migrants, a pattern of spatial appropriation emerges, a sort of migrant topology that behaves as a Moebious stripe with the mining city in a dynamic of friction, continuity, and inequality.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: commodity region
  topic: keywords
subject: migrant
  topic: keywords
subject: monetary strategy
  topic: keywords
subject: topology
  topic: keywords
creator: Yasna Contreras Gatica
creator: Beatriz Bustos Gallardo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 1
ending page: 25
doi: 10.14422/mig.21979.016

Digital Practices and Affective Experiences Among Mexican Women Asylum Seekers Trapped in Tijuana, Mexico
type: item
description: This article analyzes the affective dimension of the digital practices of Mexican women asylum seekers trapped in northern Mexico. It is based on the ethnographic method through participant observation in two shelters in the border city of Tijuana and fifteen in-depth interviews. Between January 2023 and January 2024, the U.S. asylum process began with the appointment request to enter the country through a smartphone application (CBP One). This admission system caused temporary disorientation, generating despair and fear among Mexican women. In the context of waiting spaces, this translated into a diminished capacity to act. The practices of connection and disconnection among the women made the wait more bearable and enabled forms of agency.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: smartphone
  topic: keywords
subject: affect
  topic: keywords
subject: CBP One
  topic: keywords
subject: Mexican women asylum seekers
  topic: keywords
subject: Tijuana
  topic: keywords
creator: Javier Jiménez-Royo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 18
doi: 10.14422/mig.22143.027

Assessing the Consistency of the New Migration and Change of Residence Statistics with the Residential Variation Statistics and Migration Statistics
type: item
description: Spanish migration sources are used by national and international researchers and organisations. Thus, their consistency in time-series is crucial. In 2021, the Spanish National Statistics Institute replaced the old migration sources, Residential Variation Statistics (EVR) and Migration Statistics (EM), with the new Migration and Change of Residence Statistics (EMCR), which affected the historical series. In this paper, I analyse the consistency of the EMCR with the EVR and EM in 2021, the only year in which the three sources were published simultaneously. I also produce weighting factors to make the new source consistent with the old ones. The results show that the EMCR is consistent with the ERV for internal migration, with a difference of -0.2%, but not with the EM. The EMCR counts are much higher than those of the EVR and EM for international migration, especially for emigration, 53.8% and 82.7% higher for each source, respectively. Discrepancies between sources increase with spatial scale. These differences are due to methodological changes in counting international migration.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: migration sources
  topic: keywords
subject: methodological changes
  topic: keywords
subject: time-series consistency
  topic: keywords
subject: weight factors
  topic: keywords
subject: Spanish National Statistics Institute
  topic: keywords
subject: Spain
  topic: keywords
creator: Miguel González-Leonardo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-06-05
publication date: 2025-06-05
starting page: 1
ending page: 18
doi: 10.14422/mig.22132.014

The Policy Making on Venezuelan Migratory Policies in Peru 2017-2022: Processes, Bifurcation Points and Drivers
type: item
description: This study examines Peruvian public policies on Venezuelan migration, identifying factors influencing their formulation and implementation while uncovering their behavioral patterns. Using a qualitative approach based on process tracing and thematic analysis of official documents, media narratives, and statistical data, the research identifies three phases of migration policy: (1) open-door policies, (2) securitization and restriction, and (3) invisibilization and normalization of irregular migration. These phases reveal a disconnect between political rhetoric and practical outcomes, with calculated tolerance for policy non-enforcement and migrant integration delegated to civil society and international organizations. The findings highlight incoherent migration policies marked by legal non-compliance, omission as a strategy, and limited state intervention. These dynamics are driven by advocacy coalitions excluded from decision-making, strained executive-legislative relations, and media-influenced public opinion. The study’s originality lies in its innovative combination of process tracing and thematic analysis to explain policy dynamics in contexts of institutional fragility.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: Venezuelan migration
  topic: keywords
subject: migration policy
  topic: keywords
subject: policy process
  topic: keywords
subject: advocacy coalitions
  topic: keywords
subject: Peru
  topic: keywords
creator: Juan Arroyo-Laguna
creator: Michael Knipper
creator: Carlos Arosquipa
creator: Sascha Krannich
creator: Paula Estefanía Varas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-03-31
publication date: 2025-03-31
starting page: 1
ending page: 23
doi: 10.14422/mig.22110.007

Joan Lacomba Vázquez y M.ª Isolda Perelló Carrascosa (2022). Movilidad y migraciones en el escenario mediterráneo
type: item
subject: Reseñas de libros
  topic: section
creator: Alfonso Vázquez Atochero
rights: Copyright (c) 2024
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 1
ending page: 3

Yasmine Shamma, Suzan Ilcan, Vicki Squire y Helen Underhill (eds.) (2022). Migration, Culture and Identity
type: item
subject: Reseñas de libros
  topic: section
creator: Pavel Ahmed
creator: Safia Akter
rights: Copyright (c) 2024
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 1
ending page: 3

Childhood on the Move: Redefining Children’s Agency Between Resilience and Vulnerability
type: item
description: This introductory article invites readers to reflect on migrant childhood as a space of tension between fragility and resilience, focusing on agency as the central theme of the monographic section, Childhood on the Move: Redefining Children's Agency Between Resilience and Vulnerability. It argues that migrant children are not merely passive recipients of migration processes, but active agents engaged in familial, social, and cultural dynamics across borders. It concludes that, to create more inclusive public policies adapted to the realities of migrant childhood, it is essential to recognize its complexity and multidimensionality.
subject: Presentación
  topic: section
subject: migrant childhood
  topic: keywords
subject: agency
  topic: keywords
subject: vulnerability
  topic: keywords
subject: resilience
  topic: keywords
subject: transnational dynamics
  topic: keywords
subject: inclusive policies
  topic: keywords
creator: Cecilia Estrada Villaseñor
creator: Renáta Hosnedlová
creator: Mikolaj Stanek
rights: Copyright (c) 2024
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 1
ending page: 10
doi: 10.14422/mig.y2024.i61

Racializing the Spanish Borderland. Neocolonial Rule, Patriarchal Lineage and the New Limpieza de Sangre
type: item
description: Melilla is a crucial laboratory of Spanish neocolonial rule. In this paper, we deploy our extensive ethnography in the North African Spanish enclave to argue that analyses of racialization in Spain must (1) be critically situated in the particular genealogies of Hispanic coloniality (as opposed to uncritically incorporating Anglo-Atlantic frames) and (2) foreground their inextricability from the broader formations of global apartheid and imperialism. We zoom in on the phenomena of “mestizaje” in the enclave, examining the neocolonial state intervention in marriage, the gendered and classed racialization of lineage, and the related, irreducibly heterogeneous patterns of belonging and subjection. We then point to the importance of the elimination of the interstice—the suppression of “the Other within”—to the coherence and stability of racial categories and multiculturalist governance. Contemporary racialization in Spain, then, appears as co-constituted by the border regime, patriarchal kinship, and liberal governmentality.
subject: Estudios
  topic: section
subject: Melilla
  topic: keywords
subject: Hispanic/Spanish coloniality
  topic: keywords
subject: racialization
  topic: keywords
subject: limpieza de sangre
  topic: keywords
subject: cross-border marriage
  topic: keywords
subject: kinship
  topic: keywords
subject: normativity
  topic: keywords
subject: queer of color critique
  topic: keywords
subject: mestizaje
  topic: keywords
subject: miscegenation
  topic: keywords
subject: interethnic relations
  topic: keywords
subject: interracial relations
  topic: keywords
subject: border regimes
  topic: keywords
subject: racial capitalism
  topic: keywords
subject: imperialism
  topic: keywords
subject: decoloniality
  topic: keywords
subject: feminism
  topic: keywords
subject: patriarchy
  topic: keywords
creator: Liliana Suarez-Navaz
creator: Iker Suarez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Migraciones. Publicación del Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones
date: 2025-05-27
publication date: 2025-05-27
starting page: 1
ending page: 21
doi: 10.14422/mig.21982.009