This paper explores the organizational conditionals that explain why immigrant associations in Spain have access to two basic resources required to develop transnational interventions, generally referred to as codevelopment strategies, namely access to public funding in the country of residence...

Do immigrant-origin students progress faster at school than children with French-born parents? To answer this question, this article analyses longitidunal data from a panel of students entering secondary education in France in 1995. As suggested by part of the significant literature, the...

This article explores the existence of negative peer pressures resulting from the concentration of foreigners in French lower secondary schools. Using three indicators of school attainment (number of years spent in lower secondary education, grades in 4th and 3rd year, and track selection in...

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...