This article takes us back down to the local; it presents us what is referred to as a \u2018slice of life\u2019. I think these types of articles are important for at least two reasons. First, they usually (like this one) provide the reader with specific information on the sample of participants; and second, some type of insight into how this population goes about their lives. Having said that, the article concentrates on mobilities from Latin America to Europe, and specifically to the UK, but what I found a little lacking was a more precise view of how the people in London lived. For example, labor insertion is important, but just as important is where they reside, how they reside within the city itself; the article made it seem as if these people constantly lived outside their own local geographies. What I mean is that as much as remittances are important, many of us often forget that the people sending these remittances also have to live a daily life. We instead take them out of their daily successes, failures, and struggles, and only view them as cogs in the remittance machine, the faceless migrants sending money home without given them a second thought.<\/p>\n
What I found interesting what the author\u2019s focus on mobilities outside the traditional view of bi-national movements. Transnational mobility, in the Latin American context, once again is concentrated on Mexican and Cuban migrations, which have more often than not, followed a sender-receiving country model. This type of migration does hold up with a number of populations, but even those, no longer hold water. Mexicans and Cubans have also begun migrating to Canada and parts of Europe.<\/p>\n
The article also brings to light, at least to some extent; smuggling and buying fake passports, and the things that usually brand people as criminals and\/or illegals.<\/p>\n
What do you guys think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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