Qualified migrants born in the Latin American?s Southern Cone living in Argentina and Brazil

SALA, GABRIELA ADRIANA

Marrakech, Morocco

Conferencia; IUSSP 26th International Population Conference, Marrakech, Morocco 27 September to 2 October of 2009; 2009

IUSSP

This article aims at determining the magnitude of the presence and characteristics of the qualified migrants of the Latin Americans Southern Cone living in Argentina and Brazil, according to information from the last demographic census. It also analyses the occupational distribution of each group of regional migrants, focuses on Health Care occupations. Also it contains some references to the over-qualification and precariousness of their labor insertion. It concludes that In Argentina, most of the qualified migrants developed occupations whose exercise implied a qualification in accordance with the education they already had, like health, administrative, legal, accountancy & financial, managerial and educative occupations. Occupations related to health care seem to be especially attractive for Bolivian and Paraguayan males and females and Uruguayan and Chilean females. Also, the percentage of Brazilian, Chilean and Uruguayan males in directive, managerial occupations is remarkable. On the other hand, there is a small percentage of qualified migrants in the classical working niches of border migrants residing in Argentina which shows high levels of precariousness, such as the activities of domestic cleaning, industrial production and handicrafts, construction and infrastructure and commerce. In Brazil the insertion in activities tied to health care is very relevant among Bolivians and Paraguayans. Also, directive occupations concentrated most Argentine, Chilean and Uruguayan males, besides a significant portion of Paraguayan males and Argentine females. The relative presence of non registered employees can be highlighted among Education Professionals, salesmen and saleswomen and commercial service providers, social communicators, artists and members of religious orders and medium level technicians in administrative sciences. Precariousness in the employment also affected a considerable portion of biological sciences professionals, health and similar branches, professionals of social and human sciences, and medium level professionals and technicians in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering.