Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

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Internal migration dynamics in Spain: Winners and losers from the recent economic recession

“…Parallel to the phenomenon of the increasing arrival of immigrants to Spain since the early 2000s, academic interest in international migration has grown considerably, as evidenced by the proliferation of articles published on the subject. Papers dealing with this issue include Arango (), Carling (), Peixoto et al (), Amuedo‐Dorantes and De la Rica (), González and Ortega (), Collantes, Pinilla, Sáez, and Silvestre (), Duque and Hierro (), Hierro (), Rodríguez‐Planas and Nollenberger (), and Neubecker, Smolka, and Steinbach (), to name only a selected few. Despite the crucial role of internal migration in a myriad of economic and social affairs, such as income distribution, labour market and income disparities, and population and human capital redistribution (Carrasco, Jimeno, & Ortega, ; Coulombe, ; Ellis, ; Hierro & Maza, ; Jimeno & Bentolila, ; Larramona & Sanso, ; Lomax, Stillwell, Norman, & Rees, ; Rees et al, ), the international migration boom of the last two decades deflected interest from internal migration issues in Spain.…”

Impacto de la ley de custodia compartida de la Comunidad Valenciana en las modificaciones de medida

“…La legalización del divorcio, y la normalización de éste como proceso familiar y social (Sieben y Verbakel, 2013); la movilidad geográfica de los trabajadores y los mercados con sus crisis laborales y económicas (Neubecker, Smolka y Steinbacher, 2012); y el progresivo caminar hacia una distribución real en tiempos y recursos por parte de ambos progenitores (Raley, Bianchi, y Wang, 2012), han venido cambiando la estructura de la familia y han generado nuevos modos de relaciones familiares. Además, nuevas formas de organización familiar, como las familias mono-parentales, bi-nucleares, horizontales, reconstituidas, homosexuales, convivencia de hecho, etc., ayudan a percibir este cambio en las familias como muy radical (Aguado, 2010).…”