Abstract

ARJONA GARRIDO, Ángeles  and  CHECA OLMOS, Juan Carlos. Retornados en Andalucía (España): una aproximación a los casos de Bélgica y la Argentina. Anthropologica [online]. 2005, vol.23, n.23, pp.99-126. ISSN 0254-9212.

Andalucía has been, traditionally, a starting point for emigration. Nowadays, the phenomenon has reversed and it receives nigrants from different parts of the world. To the foreign migrants we have to add the people who have returned to Andalucía. This paper analyses the return process from Belgium and Argentina. The results of the investigation show that the migrants who were in Belgium have experienced a circular migration with a clear intention of coming back, based, above all, on the fulfillment or the failure to fulfill planned objectives. On the other hand, the case of the Latin American return is different. Firstly, those who return are mostly the descendants of the emigrants. Secondly, the initial migration were thought to be final; thus, there have been contextual factors -economic decline and failed espectations- that have caused the return. In third place, the social networks have had a very minor role in the return to Andalucía.

Keywords : international migration; migration; return.

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