Resumen

CERRUTTI, Marcela Sandra  y  MAGUID, Alicia. Economic Crisis in Spain and the Return of South American Immigrants. Migr. Inter [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.3, pp.155-189. ISSN 2594-0279.

The paper examines the process of return among the fourth largest South American immigrants groups in Spain: Argentines, Bolivians, Colombians and Ecuadorians. Using several sources of official data from Spain and Population Census from origin countries, the paper describes the incidence of return as well as returnees characteristics. Immigrants from Bolivia, who are the ones arriving later to Spain and having the largest numbers of irregular migrants have the highest return rates. Besides, we found that men are more likely to return and also that returnees have higher educational attainment and lower labor force participation rates that the whole population in origin countries. The study points several conceptual and methodological challenges for the study of return migration.

Palabras llave : migration; return; crisis; South Americans; Spain.