We examine the institutions that comprise the American health system and their relationship to a surging immigrant population. The clash between the system and this human flow originates in the large number of immigrants who are unauthorized, poor, and uninsured and, hence, unable to access a...

The paper explores the relationship between skilled migration, investments in education and economic growth in transitional countries. The brain waste phenomenon implies that skilled immigrants work abroad in jobs for unskilled labor. Therefore their qualifications are not properly used. The...

In this talk I want to examine the organization of work in two recuperated enterprises in Argentina. The latter refers to a group of enterprises that have been appropriated by their workers and are run as self-managed cooperatives. There are about 200 of them, employing around 10,000. Some of...

Examining the multiple ways in which migration relates to social change is a daunting task. It requires, first of all, defining what social change is and, secondarily, delimiting the scope of analysis to certain types of migration and not others. The greatest dangers that I envision in this...

Transnational activism is today at the center of scholarly and political debates on globalization. After two decades of relatively uncontested expansion of neoliberal policies and institutions, the last decade has witnessed a veritable explosion of networks, coalitions, movements, and other...

In this talk I want to examine the organization of work in two recuperated enterprises in Argentina. The latter refers to a group of enterprises that have been appropriated by their workers and are run as self-managed cooperatives. There are about 200 of them, employing around 10,000. Some of...

En el presente estudio se indaga acerca de las relaciones entre las características de las instituciones, la forma de funcionamiento de las organizaciones públicas y el nivel de bienestar y desarrollo que alcanzan las sociedades. Es de interés conocer la incidencia de aspectos específicos,...

Examining the multiple ways in which migration relates to social change is a daunting task. It requires, first of all, defining what social change is and, secondarily, delimiting the scope of analysis to certain types of migration and not others. The greatest dangers that I envision in this...