Alejandro Portes

This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution. The volume results from a comparative project that examines the interface between migration and the development of cities throughout different periods including current conditions. Nine strategic sites are examined: Three cities in Europe, three in Latin America and three in North America. The editors contribute to the analysis by summarizing lessons from the cases discussed and by providing a glimpse at the relevance of the study of migration and cities historically. Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and students of sociology, migration studies, race and ethnic studies, history, anthropology, urban studies, and economics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

This essay seeks to contribute to the contemporary literature on urbanization by focusing on the internal diversity existing in one emerging global city—Miami. We present first overall economic characteristics of this metropolitan area before discussing characteristics of three pairs of municipalities within it. These localities were deliberately selected to highlight contrasts and disparities in the history and present situation of specific places that tend to be ignored or bypassed in general descriptions of a given metropolitan area. A focus on these disparities provides a necessary tool to fully understand the dynamics of urbanization under contemporary capitalism.

This book brings together the most recent and the most comprehensive collection of articles on a population at risk: the children of immigrants in the United States, especially those children whose parents came to the country without legal authorization. The end of compassion and the shift to temporary migration to source the labour needs of the American economy have brought in their wake a series of consequences, some of which were predictable and others unexpected. The chapters fully document the nature and implications of the enforcement initiatives implemented by the American government in recent years and their interaction with state policies and local contexts of reception. This collection provides an exhaustive testimony of the severe conditions faced by unauthorized migrant families and their children today and their repercussions in both countries of origin and those where they currently live. The End of Compassion will be of interest to researchers and academics studying migration in the United States and ethnic and racial studies, and to advanced students of sociology, public policy, law and political science. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Los nuevos españoles: la incorporación de los hijos de inmigrantes/coord. por Rosa Aparicio Gómez, Alejandro Portes

The article examines the role of self-employment in a post-industrial labor market bifurcated between high paying-jobs in the profession and low-paying jobs in the services and construction. In the context, self-employment emerges as an alternative to pour wages and unemployment among both native and immigrant workers. The analysis shows that self-employment is not homogenous between “survival” enterprises yielding minimal income and incorporated firms whose owners earn incomes significantly above their wage-earning counterparts. We examine these differences among whites, blacks, native born and major immigrant nationalities. We examine determinants of earnings and self-employment and find that both are significantly influenced by human capital factors but that, controlling for them, significant differences exist among ethnic groups. These are attributed to differences in social capital linked to …

As a prelude to the following essays on nine cities selected as strategic research sites, this introduction traces, in summary fashion, the linkages between migration and the development of the capitalist world economy, including, the rise of cities and their development. The history of migration during these five centuries encompasses the movement of European settlers to the new colonies, followed by three centuries of trans-Atlantic slave trade leading in turn, to deliberate labour recruitment in three continents and, eventually, to the contemporary self-driven flows of both labourers and refugees. A final diagram summarizes this evolution and seeks to situate the origin and development of the nine selected cities within it.

La investigación actual contribuye al continuo debate sobre las ventajas que da el bilingüismo sobre las oportunidades de vida que se presentan, examinando si los hijos de inmigrantes bilingües logran más o menos éxitos en la adultez comparado con aquellos que son solo monolingües. Usando datos longitudinales obtenidos en España, encontramos una significativa ventaja entre los jóvenes bilingües en medidas como logros escolares, prestigio laboral e ingreso familiar. Nos basamos en la literatura existente de logro de estatus utilizando modelos de ecuaciones estructurales para demostrar cómo. El estudio concluye con una discusión sobre las implicaciones teóricas y prácticas de nuestros hallazgos, en particular aquellos acerca de la adaptación e incorporación de los hijos de inmigrantes a los países receptores.

Este libro surge de una experiencia inédita para los países andinos de Latinoamérica: la recepción de más de cuatro millones de migrantes venezolanos en Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Chile a partir del año 2017. Nunca antes los países sudamericanos habían experimentado un fenómeno migratorio tan intenso y vasto. América Central y América del Norte tienen una experiencia a este respecto, con las migraciones de sectores de las poblaciones de México y los países centroamericanos a los Estados Unidos, pero no América del Sur. La última ola migratoria para la mayoría de los países sudamericanos fue la del siglo XIX, cuando los inmigrantes europeos llegaron en plena etapa industrial. Después siguieron migraciones graduales, más hacia fuera que hacia dentro, que en algunos casos terminaron sumando cifras importantes, pero a lo largo de varias décadas. Sin embargo, la migración venezolana de los últimos tres años fue un éxodo. Colombia ha acogido alrededor de 1 770 000 venezolanos, seguido por Perú con 1 040 000, Chile con 457 000 y Ecuador con 417 000 (Acnur-OIM, R4V, 2020). México y los países de América Central y el Caribe también albergan un gran número de refugiados y migrantes de Venezuela.