Génesis y composición de un sistema migratorio iberoamericano

Abstract

The article explores the existence of a Latin-American & Caribbean - Spain migratory system. Latin American and Caribbean is the immigrants´ region of origin, and Spain is the host society. The data analysis has been developed using statistical methods or tools. The empirical evidence has confirmed the existence of a migratory system. Spain is the receiving center and several South America countries the major emigration region (Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Argentina). However, migratory system has been able to include Central American countries in last years. We identify some relevant characteristics about this migratory system: the migratory flows are economic, present high index of feminisation and the labour market insertion occurs in the lowest level of the labour market. This system has been developed in the last decade but it was constituted in the early 1970s (of an embryonic form). It presented a different composition: it was integrated mainly by Southern Cone exiled