Abstract

NEIRA ORJUELA, Fernando  and  GIRALDO RODRIGUEZ, Martha Liliana. Prácticas económicas de migrantes latinoamericanos: el caso de Colombia, República Dominicana y El Salvador. Migr. Inter [online]. 2006, vol.3, n.4, pp.146-160. ISSN 2594-0279.

Globalization currently presents profound transformations in, among other areas, economics, politics, culture, law, and communications. It has thus brought with it changes in the composition of migratory flows, principally in a diversification in the sending communities, the seasonality of migration, and a greater presence of women in the overall migratory flow. In particular, there has been a reconfiguration of migratory networks, transnational social spaces, and new modalities of integration into the receiving societies, where migrants' economic practices are prominent. Thus, this work's principal objective is to analyze the those practices among migrants from three Latin American countries in order to identify sociodemographic factors that facilitate the appearance of these economic practices.

Keywords : international migration; globalization; transnationalism; economic practices; United States.