251 Latin American migration, development and transnational citizenship: A South-North academic dialogue

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
OB 307 (Faculty of Economics)

RC31 Sociology of Migration (host committee)

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Session Organizers:
Jean-Michel LAFLEUR, Université de Ličge, Belgium , Elisa BREY, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain and Isabel YÉPEZ, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Chair:
Jean-Michel LAFLEUR, Université de Ličge, Belgium
Co-Chair:
Elisa BREY, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Migración transnacional, paternidad transnacional y solidaridad familiar en la ciudad de cochabamba (Oral Presentation)
Isabel YÉPEZ, Centre d'études du Développement, Belgium; Carmen LEDO, CENTRO DE PLANIFICACIÓN Y GESTIÓN - (CEPLAG), Bolivia; Mirko MAZADRO, Universitŕ IUAV di Venezia, Italy

Migración y familia a través del atlántico. Un acercamiento a la reconfiguración de los vínculos familiares transnacionales de migrantes Latino Americanos en España (Oral Presentation)
Sandra GIL ARAUJO, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani-CONICET, Argentina; Claudia PEDONE, Institut d'Infŕncia i Món Urbŕ (CIIMU), Spain; María Margarita ECHEVERRI, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana , Colombia

Bridging or bonding? The nature of the social capital of Latin American immigrants in Spain and the U.S. (Oral Presentation)
Laura MORALES, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Amparo GONZÁLEZ-FERRER, Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, Spain

An approach to the Brazilian immigrant entrepreneurship in London and Barcelona (Oral Presentation)
Leonardo CAVALCANTI, Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona, Spain

The social media dimension of migrants transnational practices: Participating in the Argentine elections 2011 from abroad (Distributed Paper)
Natalia Denise SENMARTIN, Open University of Catalonia, Spain