International Migration and Crisis. Transition Toward a New Migratory Phase

Abstract

This study argues that the recent transformations in the social organization of migration have transcended to configure a new migratory phase; one that is called the period of “contraction and disengagement”. It is characterized by a conjunction of diverse processes of change that have had repercussions on the functioning of international migration as a socioeconomic strategy for families and communities, which today no longer seems to be sustainable in a setting of economic regression and migratory repression.