Escenarios migratorios y globalización en América Latina:

una mirada al inicio del siglo XXI

Abstract

The article feeds the debate on the characteristics of the "new era of migration", typical of global processes in the second half of the twentieth century, analyzing the topic in Latin America during the period of high globalization (Appadurai, 2007). Adopting the proposals of international organizations for flow classification (north-north, south-north, north-south, south-south), but weighing their use regarding the division of the world between North and South, the article systematizes regional migration flows by subregions, using statistical, territorial and geographical indicators. It highlights the characteristics of Latino migration to Europe and the United States as well as interregional movements between the subregions of the continent. The conclusion is that high globalization trends to influence the dynamics of population movements on the continent, diluting but not homogenizing the boundaries between regional and extra-regional, border and non-border, temporary, permanent and transit migration. It also points that territorial, cultural and socio-historical factors in Latin American countries act to produce a diversity that needs to be taken into consideration.