Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals (Sep 2014)

Europeans and US nationals in Northern Andean Patagonia: new experiences

  • Brenda Matossian,
  • Ieva Zebryte,
  • Hugo Marcelo Zunino Edelsberg

Journal volume & issue
no. 106/107
pp. 237 – 260

Abstract

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The financial crisis has produced a relatively new type of mobility from northern countries towards Latin America. This article discusses the integration of migrants of European and US origin into Northern Andean Patagonia, a tourism-oriented area of outstanding natural beauty. The use of statistical data and qualitative-interpretative instruments shows that this migration has gained importance within the framework of «dissatisfaction-driven migration», as opposed to «deficiency-driven migration». The territorial expression of the phenomenon is not homogeneous within the region. However, the emergence of new socio-territorial and cultural processes merits analysis.

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