Resilience out of vulnerability: latin american immigrants in Spain and the United States

Abstract

Based on a comparative study of the effects of the recession on Latin American immigrants in the United States and Spain, this article shows how the position immigrants occupy in the social structure tends to make them vulnerable subjects. But as social agents, immigrants respond with various resilience strategies to minimise the effects of their vulnerable condition. Diverse factors explain the vulnerability of Latin American immigrants in the labour markets in the United States and Spain.

Keywords

• Immigration
• return
• vulnerability
• resistance
• Latinos
• Spain
• United States