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Global and Regional Political Economy of Migration

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Regionalism, Development and the Post-Commodities Boom in South America

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International migration is a social process that, from various and different levels, contributes to the structuring and reproduction of contemporary society. The reproduction model sets up a large puzzle with many pieces, many of which also overlap and cross-link in more than one way. In our case, we analyze only three of them: migration as a factor of reproduction of populations, reproduction of capital, and reproduction of class structures and social inequality. With this, we propose a model of understanding of migration, identifying its position, function, and contradictions in each of these three great moments of the reproduction of society: demography, economics, and the structure of social classes. In all three cases, the thesis we propose is that in a globalized world, society and migration must be thought through and analyzed in terms of their globalization.

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    Coleman documents similar tendencies (2006) in the case of seven European countries (Austria, England, Denmark, Germany , the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden), where by 2050, the population of migrant origin will represent between 24% and 36% of the population .

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    The other 27% divides among Afro-Americans, Asians, Aboriginals, and other minorities. Data from the Current Population Survey, March Supplement of 2015.

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    It worth mentioning that the most recent data of demographic projections of the US Census Bureau indicate that this current situation of demographic replacement and replacement and age distribution that is currently occurring in California, will extend to the entire country during the next decades (Canales 2015b).

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    CEPALstat, http://estadisticas.cepal.org/cepalstat/WEB_CEPALSTAT/Portada.asp

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Canales, A.I. (2018). Global and Regional Political Economy of Migration. In: Vivares, E. (eds) Regionalism, Development and the Post-Commodities Boom in South America. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62551-5_11

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