Towards a theoretical model for the study of productive and reproductive strategies in transnational families: Latin American migration and social mobility in Spain

Abstract

This research work, as well as the English editing of the text, was funded by the following research projects: "Gender, Transnationalism and inter-generational strategies of social mobility" (FEM2011-26110; Oso, dir. 2011) and "Gender Crossed Mobilities and Transnational Dynamics" (FEM2015-67164-R, Oso, dir. 2015), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. It was also partly funded by the Xunta de

Migration and Social Mobility Between Argentina and Spain: Climbing the Social Hierarchy in the Transnational Space

“…This requires the analysis of how class positions shift with comings and goings within the transnational space. In line with other research conducted by the authors, (Oso and Suárez-Grimalt 2017;Oso et al 2019), it reveals the essential need to consider several major key factors, rather than limiting research to education and occupational trajectories of social mobilities: patrimonial, business, and marriage strategies, as well as investments in social, human and legal capital (Spanish nationality). Finally, the principal contribution of this chapter is the insight it provides into the transnational articulation of capital accumulation, shedding light on family social mobility strategies and trajectories from an intergenerational dimension.…”

“…The family biography, which highlights the resources that are mobilised and deployed between generations, provides an alternative approach to the quantitative research that has dominated social mobility literature, which is perhaps more suited to the analysis of social mobility dynamics in the transnational space. Yet it has received scant attention when addressing the problems arising from social mobility within migration (Bertaux and Thompson 1997;Portes and Rumbaut 2001;Dalle 2013Dalle , 2016Oso and Suárez-Grimalt 2017;Oso et al 2019;among others). Furthermore, research has generally failed to combine quantitative and qualitative studies that consider the connection between migration and social mobility (Portes and Rumbaut 2001;Favell and Recchi 2011;among others).…”

Movilidad social de familias gallegas en Buenos Aires pertenecientes a la última corriente migratoria: estrategias y trayectorias

“…El enfoque teórico que aborda la articulación entre movilidad geográfica y social (Oso, dir. 2015;Oso, Sáiz-López, Cortés, 2017;Oso y Suárez Grimalt, 2017) tiene en cuenta, en primer lugar, la posición del individuo en el ciclo migratorio: desde su inicio, con la toma de decisión de la migración y los primeros pasos en la inserción a la sociedad de acogida, hasta un estadio avanzado. En segundo lugar, distingue entre: a) los proyectos de movilidad social imaginarios de los migrantes, es decir, los sueños y expectativas de futuro, que están directamente relacionados con los proyectos migratorios; b) las estrategias que se ponen en marcha para lograr dichos sueños, nos referimos a las elecciones del actor social ante el dilema de opciones varias, y c) las trayectorias de clase vividas, o conjunto de posiciones sociales vitales que ocupa el individuo en la jerarquía social.…”

“…Desde un enfoque cualitativo, destaca la línea de investigación, iniciada por Bertaux y Thompson (1997), que aborda la movilidad social a través de historias de familia; si bien esta aproximación aplicada al estudio de la migración internacional ha estado menos desarrollada. Por lo general, la producción científica ha dejado en un papel secundario el análisis de otros determinantes (más allá de la educación y la ocupación) que operan para entender la especificidad de las trayectorias de movilidad social de la población migrante, tales como, por ejemplo, las inversiones económicas que se realizan en el país de origen (remesas, compra de propiedades, etcétera), la presencia del capital social étnico, las estrategias de movilidad espacial (viajes de ida y vuelta) (Oso y Suárez-Grimalt, 2017).…”

A General Model for the Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities Between Europe and Latin America

“…However, more recent approaches go beyond the analysis of the relationship between migration and social inequality solely from the point of view of the host country by adopting a transnational perspective, whereby the contexts of origin and destination of migration flows are connected through relationships that the migrants themselves build and maintain over geographical, political and cultural boundaries (Glick Schiller et al 1992;Levitt 2001;Vertovec 2004;Oso and Suárez-Grimalt 2018). In this sense, the study of migrants' social mobility must be understood in the context of family strategies and personal migratory trajectories that cover various social spaces such as country of origin, transnational destination, diaspora and space (Oso 2011;Oso et al 2019).…”