Migration and Development Transitions. A Perspective from Latin America

ALEJANDRO GRIMSON; MENARA GUIZARDI

The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development

Routledge

Lugar: New York; Año: 2020; p. 547 - 556

In this chapter, we trace the political, economic, and social links that migration has hadwith the concept of development in Latin America from the nineteenth to the twenty-firstcentury. In order to narrate this debate, we have structured our reflections into four sectionsthat cover the changes in the ideological make-up of the relationship between these twoterms. These sections cover from 1850 to 1950 (?Fantasies of Progress?), from 1950 to 1985(The Development Era), from 1985 to 2008 (Globalised and Transnational), and from 2016onwards (The Adversities of Post-globalisation). In each section we will seek to characterisethe socio-political contexts and the more general economic processes that frame migrationsin, from, and to Latin America. However, we will focus on the semantic changes that haveattributed socially contradictory, heterogeneous, and disputed meanings to the concepts ofmigration and development.