Latin America, Subordinate Insertion and Migratory Outbreaks

Abstract

After the lost decade (1980s), the neoliberal adjustment of the Washington Consensus (1990s) and the illusion experienced by the rise in commodity prices in the international market, which in Brazil would imply in the decline of social-developmentalism, the countries of America the problems of migratory issues. Thus, migratory movements related to Latin American countries include the emigration of their nationals to the central-organic countries, inter-migrations in the region and the occurrence of migratory flows from other continents (especially in Asia and from Africa). Thus, contrary to what happened in the subtended period of the nineteenth century to the sixties of the present century, Latin America is not only positioned as a predominantly European immigration center (with emphasis on Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Brazil) and starts to live with all these aspects characterizing the new migratory flows. To this new reality, the situation of degeneration experienced by much of the Periphery/Semi periphery, except for the countries of East Asia and China, as a result of globalization and neoliberalism, characterizing elements of the current stage of the world-economy.