International migration paradoxes: distributive justice and migrants skills in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

High skilled migration has always been privileged and even encouraged by international and national politics. Domestic politics for the attraction of the highly skilled consider persons as economic goods but they sometimes forget their personal rights and interests. This is also true in the case of international agreements for low skilled migration, which tend to restrict it. Human capital is considered valuable according to its education and working abilities, which puts undocumented migrants at a difficult economic position. Some questions to be answered are: Is it just to privilege the mobility of certain individuals based on their qualifications? How about life style migration or migration that looks for a better personal development? Can human capital circulate in the same manner as material goods? Which policies of what countries have reached true politics of talent circulation that benefits whom? Do they benefit the individuals as well?

Sub Track

• Migration and Latin American diasporas

Session Organizer

• Camelia Nicoleta Tigau, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Chair

• Fernando Lozano Ascencio, CRIM-UNAM

Individual Presentations

• Movilidad Internacional de Elites Económicas y del Conocimiento en el siglo 21 - Andrés Solimano, FLACSO

• Negotiating Social Class Identity in the Context of International Migration: - Carmen Henne-Ochoa, Bucknell University

• Mexican Skilled Migration to the US: a Gender Perspective - Jose Luis L Avila Martinez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Camelia Nicoleta Tigau, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• Migración calificada en América Latina: debates y desafíos teórico-metodológicos - Luciana Gandini, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas UNAM

• Desequilibrios en el mercado laboral de profesionistas en México y su relación con la migración internacional de mano de obra calificada - Fernando Lozano Ascencio, CRIM-UNAM

Discussant

• Sara Z Poggio, University of Maryland/Baltimore County