My decision had already been taken: narratives of Argentinean migrant parents about return policies in the Regions of Veneto and Galicia

ANA IRENE ROVETTA CORTES

Migration Letters

Transnational Press London

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2016 vol. 13 p. 393 - 402

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Autonomous Community of Galicia and the Veneto region developed policies with the aim of facilitating the "return" of emigrants and their descendants. But have these return policies conditioned contemporary migration flows from Argentina? The aim of this paper is to give an exploratory response through the narratives of 25 Argentinean migrant parents who moved with their families to these regions. Most of them manifested little or no knowledge about return policies. This situation would be related to: 1) personal disinterest, 2) different ancestral origins, and 3) the presence of social networks.