The potential of migrants to promote poverty reduction and development in their regions of origin – which is generally referred to as the ‘migration and development nexus’ – is a hot topic on the development agenda. Several seminars on this issue have recently been held, such as the 2006...

This article aims to show that the benefits of international migration (often presented as a ‘global flow’) very much depend on the <em>positionality</em> of the areas involved, as well as the regional particularities. It is argued that countries producing south-north migration or diasporic states...

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...

It was supposed to be the magic wand that took care of immigration. The North American Free Trade Agreement was to make Mexico rich and create enough employment incentives to keep its people at home. It has been anything but. More than ten years after the signing of the treaty, economic growth...

Aquella fría mañana bogotana me encaminé hacia el viejo edificio Manuel Murillo Toro, ubicado en un deteriorado sector del centro de la ciudad. Tenía mi primera entrevista y una cierta ansiedad me embargaba. Me indicaron en la portería que subiera al sexto piso. Subí por un viejo ascensor...

In this paper, we examine longitudinal data from Thailand and compare gendered migration patterns to three substantively different destinations (a regional, primarily agricultural wage laborer market; a primate city and its surrounding suburbs; and a newly industrialized, state sponsored export...

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...

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...

el tema— “es un medio de poder en la lucha económica”. De la misma manera como en la guerra se necesitan “rifles y cañones”, “una bolsa fuerte” es necesaria en tiempos de paz, cuando “las naciones seguirán su lucha inexorable e inevitable por la existencia nacional y el poder...