Dialogue and discussion are necessary for the development of any new field of scholarship or analytical framework, especially when the point of contention is a long-established paradigm. However, the development of Transnational Migration Studies has been marred by something less salutary. Often...

Religious images, especially the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater, dominate the resplendent visual culture of Haiti and its diaspora.1 Whether in the mountains of Haiti or the streets of Miami’s Little Haiti, however, their meanings vary and are contested among Haitian believers. For...

En este informe preliminar se presentan algunas formulaciones respecto al mercado de valores en México a partir de un enfoque sociológico, con la intención de superar las visiones estrictamente económicas. Se intenta aquí incorporar factores que por lo general no son consideras por las...

We review the empirical literature on ethnic economic enclaves after the concept was formulated twenty-five years ago. The balance of this literature is mixed, but many studies reporting negative conclusions were marred by faulty measurement of the concept. We discuss the original theoretical...

Como parte del proyecto “Instituciones y desarrollo: un estudio comparativo”, el presente trabajo analiza la autoridad aeronáutica y aeroportuaria de México. Como se explicará a lo largo del texto, esa autoridad se encuentra distribuida en varias oficinas gubernamentales. Pero entre ellas...

Religious images, especially the Virgin Mary and Saint James the Greater, dominate the resplendent visual culture of Haiti and its diaspora.1 Whether in the mountains of Haiti or the streets of Miami’s Little Haiti, however, their meanings vary and are contested among Haitian believers. For...

This paper provides an analysis of artistic expression about Mexican immigration to the U.S. drawing on work primarily created in the U.S. by Mexican and Chicano artists and other artists who have participated in creating a visual record and contemporary picture of Mexican migration to the U.S....

Este trabajo está orientado a describir y analizar el desarrollo de la Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago de Chile en tanto institución social. Ello supone asumir una perspectiva de análisis que incorpore, a lo menos, dos dimensiones centrales: Una propiamente institucional referida a las...

How do spiritual and religious values interface with the process of assimilation among the children of immigrants in the United States at the beginning of the New Millennium? The purpose of this paper is to address that question on the basis of ethnographic evidence collected between 2002 and...

El debate convencional en países en desarrollo sobre la administración pública se ha centrado en las últimas décadas alrededor de los (restringidos) alcances y (amplios) límites del Estado1. El paradigmático punto que plantea esta literatura consiste en que el interés individual, así...