Abstract

GIORGULI SAUCEDO, Silvia E.  and  ITZIGSOHN, José. Gender differences in the migratory experience: Transnationalism and Latin American migrants' incorporation in the United States. Pap. poblac [online]. 2006, vol.12, n.47, pp.9-37. ISSN 2448-7147.

The main goal of this paper is to explore to what extent gender influences both, the incorporation and the participation in transnational practices among first generation immigrants in the context of a receiving society. For that purpose, we use data from the Comparative Immigrant Enterprise Project which analyze 1997 and 1998 information for three Latino groups: Colombians, Dominicans and Salvadoreans. Our results suggest that there exist gender differences in the integration pattern to the receiving society and that such differences can be associated to gender roles. However, we also found that these processes also have internal contradictions and their own complexity, which is shown, for example, in the parallelism between transnationalism and incorporation processes among first generation Latino immigrants in the U.S.

Keywords : international migration; Latin American migrants; social integration; labor market; gender; United States.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )