Enfoque de redes sociales en las migraciones de América latina hacia Francia

Abstract

We comparatively analyse four types of migratory flows from Latin America to France: the South American exile, the “brain-drain”, the labour migration of a national group and the Haitian Diaspora. The focus of analysis shift from traditional macro social migratory categories to the “meso-level” or the intermediation level, between macro and micro social factors. We point up different types and fonctions of Latin Amercian social networks that illustrate four different uses of the concept of network. Despite its frequently diffuse application and its lack of consensus in social sciences, we conclude that the network approach can provide appropriate knowledge on a wide range of migratory modalities.