Academic Literature -Migration by Country

Communications Landscaping – North and Latin American Transnational Communities

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Migration by Nation

Studies devoted to migration in specific zones or nations related to the query.

• Salvadoran Transnationalism. Toward the definition of the national community
  By: Patricia Landolt
  Lenguage: English
  
  Transnationalism is a dialectical process. Grassroots transnationalism--the struggle for economic, social, and political reinsertion by displaced populations--elicits an elite transnational response. The transnational migrant social field is consequently a contested terrain in which new relations of domination and exploitation emerge out of established power structures and hegemonic strategies. Ultimately, the transnational engagement of grassroots and elites envelops the national community and leads to the redefinition of the boundaries of the nation-state. This paper tests this dialectical proposition on the case of El Salvador. It examines the grassroots transnational economic and political activities of Salvadoran transmigrants, the multiple impacts they have on their place of origin, and the responses they elicit on the part of the Salvadoran state and bourgeoisie.
• Dominican Immigrants and Social Capital in New York City: A Case Study
  By: Julissa Reynoso
  Lenguage: English
  
  This study explores some of the ways in which social capital is created by an immigrant community in the form of informal and formal associations and networks. The author presents the case of Dominican immigrants in New York City and their experience in generating transnational social capital. She argues that social capital in itself is crucial for adaptation but is not enough to generate an immigrant group's economic sustainability in the United States.

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