Room 1
. Remittances and Economic Development
Well-being  and  international  remittances  in  rural  Mexican  homes,  Rafael  G.  Reyes 
Morales  y  Alicia  S.  Gijón  Cruz.  Instituto  Tecnológico  de  Oaxaca  (ITO)  y  Universidad 
Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (UABJO). Mexico
The  impact  of  international  migration  and  remittances  on  the  enterprising  initiative 
and  the  working  generation  in  rural  Ecuador,  Christian  Vasco,  Universidad  de  Kassel, 
Germany
Remittances, poverty and inequality: the case of Ecuador, Juan Ponce, Mercedes Onofa 
y Lilian Olivé, FLACSO Ecuador
Global  Financial  Crisis,  Remittances  from  International  Migration,  and  Livelihood 
Security in Nepal, Beatrice Knerr, University of Kassel, Germany
Moderator: Abelardo Morales, FLACSO Costa Rica 
Room 2
. Security, Securitization and Human Rights
Human trafficking as an "abusive form of migration": securitization of the immigration 
debate  and  criminalization  of  the  migrant,  María  José  Magliano  y  Janneth  Clavijo, 
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina 
Poland:  Production  of  Irregular  Migrants  through  Misguided  Migration  Policy  and 
Ineffective Use of Regularisation as a Tool in Migration Management, Alan Desmond, 
Law Faculty - University College Cork (UCC), Ireland
 
From the "institutional production of irregularity" to "post-facto irregularity": ten years 
of  migration  policies  in  Spain,  Gabriel  Echeverría,  Instituto  Universitario  de 
Investigación Ortega y Gasset, Spain
Mexican Border Governementalities Since 9/11 And The War On Organized Crime. Marianne Marchand, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México 
Moderator: Luin Goldring, York University, Canadá 
Room 3. Migrant Organizations, Movements and Political Participation
From the bowels of the clubs: A study of the associative migrant model, Lenin Priego, 
Instituto  Mora, Mexico
A breath of new life before saying goodbye: the social and transnational movement of 
former  farm  laborers  from  1942  to  1964  from  Michoacán,  Mexico,  Philippe 
Schaffhauser Mizzi, Centro de Estudios Rurales, Michoacán, Mexico
Transnational suffrage, the Latin American experience of voting from the exterior and 
the  foreign  vote,  Gustavo  Ernesto  Emmerich  y  Xiomara  Peraza  Torres,  Universidad 
Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, Argentina
Migrants  and  the  struggle  for  rights:  possibilities  and  limitations  of  the  articulation 
between  organizations,  Sergio  Caggiano,  Consejo  Nacional  de  Ingestigaciones 
Científicas  y  Técnicas  (CONICET)  -  Instituto  de  Desarrollo  Económico  y  Social  (IDES), 
Argentina
The  construction  of  bi-national  citizenship  for  political  impact:  the  case  of  Mexican 
society  and  the  migrant  as  a  political  actor,  Brenda  Valdes,  Iniciativa  Ciudadana, 
Mexico
Moderator: Alicia Torres, FLACSO Ecuador 
Room 4. Return Experiences
The importance of transnational social networks for the return and re-insertion in the 
migratory  process  of  Ecuadorian  migrants,  Christian  Schramm,  Institute  for  Latin 
American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Occupational  mobility  of  returning  Mexican  migrants,  Salvador  Cobo,  Centro  de 
Estudios Migratorios del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM- Mexico)
To return of to stay? Dilemmas surrounding staying or returning among the Ecuadorian 
population  in  Spain,  Juan  Peris,  Erika  Masanet  Ripoll  y  Susana  López,  Instituto 
Universitário  de  Lisboa  (ISCTE-IUL),  Centro  de  Investigação  e  Estudos  de  Sociologia 
(CIES-IUL), Portugal / Ecuador
Leaving  to  return  -  returning  to  go  back  again:  Agricultural  sustenance  and  social 
mobility  under  the  impact  of  globalization  in  the  Austro  area  of  Ecuador,  Barbara 
Grunenfelder-Elliker, FLACSO Ecuador
Moderator: Liliana Rivera, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 
Room 5. Human Rights, Citizenship and Migration
Forced migration in Latin  America, reviewing contexts and notions, Martha Inés Villa, 
Corporación Región, Colombia
 
Human  rights  and  conflict  in  migration:  the  need  for  recognition,  Ariadna  Estevez, 
UNAM, Mexico
The person in "judicial limbo": neither deportable nor able to become legalized in Spain, 
Adriana Jarrín, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
 
Ideological  battles:  violence,  subjectivity  and  state  justice  in  the  era  of  neoliberal 
fragmentation, Yerko Castro, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
Citizenship  and  rights:  a  reflection  on  the  experience  of  in-transit  migration,  Patricia 
Zamudio,  Centro  de  Investigaciones  y  Estudios  Superiores  en  Antropología  Social, 
Unidad Golfo, Mexico
Moderator: Jorge Rojas, CODHES, Colombia 
Room 6. Women in Migration: Practices, Representations and Subjectivities
"I  wanted  to  see  more  of  the  world":  Infant  migration  seen  through  the  eyes  of 
Peruvian  girls  and  boys  in  Barcelona  and  Santiago  de  Chile,  Iskra  Pavez  Soto, 
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
Discursive  constructions  around  feminine  migration  and  transnational  maternity  in 
Bolivia, Fabiana Chirino, Universidad Autónoma “Gabriel René Moreno” —Santa Cruz, 
Bolivia
Central American women migrants and sex workers on the southern Mexican border as 
reflected  in  the  contemporary  debate  on  prostitution  and  transnational  migration, 
Laura Beatriz  Aguirre, Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Libre 
de Berlín, Germany
 
Moderator: Diana Santos, FLACSO Ecuador 
Room 7 . The Global Crisis and its Impact on International Migrations
The  world  crisis  and  the  exhaustion  of  the  model  of  population  exportation  and 
collection of family remittances in El Salvador.  Is a new development strategy viable?, 
Oscar Guillermo  Morales  Barahona, Universidad de El Salvador, El Salvador
Return  migration  in  Morocco:  economic  impact  on  the  development 
local, Mohammed  Khachani, Asociación Marroquí de Estudios e Investigaciones sobre 
la inmigración, Universidad Mohammed V Agdal Rabat, Morocco
The  reconfiguration  of  international  migratory  processes  and  its  role  in  family 
strategies in Mexico, Ana Jardón, El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico
Dynamics of Mobility of International Traders in Nigeria: Economic Crisis, Globalization and Visa Situation. Adejumoke Afolayan, CEPACS, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 
Feminized  migrations  to  sustain  an  unsustainable  model  of  cities  (and  development), 
Mar García y Amaia Pérez Orozco, ONU Mujeres
Moderator: Fernando Lozano, CRIM-UNAM, México 
Room 8 . Regional Policies and Migration
Benefits  for  all?  Crisis,  development  and  governability  in  the  Ibero-American  political 
agenda on immigration, Silvana Santi, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
The process of internationalization of the Agreement on Residence in the Mercosur: an 
evaluation  of  the  commitment  of  six  states  to  create  an  area  for  free  residence  and 
work, Thomas Muñoz, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales –UNAM, Mexico
Regional  agreements  and  migration:  from  cooperation  of  developed  states  regarding 
migration  and  security  to  the  lack  of  consensus  regarding  expansion  of  the  human 
rights of immigrants, Nuty Cárdenas Alaminos, UNAM, Mexico
Challenges of the Divide Between Immigration and Emigration Policy: Compulsions of Sovereignty or Crisis of Governance? Perveen Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India 
Migration in the context of the processes of Latin American and Caribbean integration, 
Miriam Rodriguez, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba
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Moderator: María Isabel Moncayo, FLACSO Ecuador
Room 9 . Migration, Spirituality, Parties and Religion
When  migrants  bring  their  devotions  with  them:  popular  Bolivian  and  Peruvian 
religions  in  urban  territories,  from  Buenos  Aires  to  Madrid,  Susana  Sassone,  Consejo 
Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET, Argentina
Migration, identity and religiosity in Sisid, Cañar Province, Ecuador, José Antonio  Duchi Zaruma, Unidad Educativa Intercultural Bilingüe, Cañar, Ecuador
 
Religious  changes  in  migratory  contexts.  Some  methodological  challenges  in  the 
analysis  of  the  relationship  between  religious  diversity  and  international  migration, 
Liliana  Rivera,  Olga  Odgers  y  Alberto  Hernández,  Centro  Regional  de  Investigaciones 
Multidisciplinarias de la UNAM y El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, México
Parties and migration, Patricia Arias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Moderator: Yolanda Alfaro, FLACSO Ecuador 
Room 10. Climate Change, Environmental Deterioration and New Migratory Processes
Migration  flows  in  Mexico  and  their  sensitivity  to  climate  change,  Kerstin  Schmidt-Verkerk, Sussex University, England
Migration and climate change from a regional perspective: the case of Puebla, Miguel 
Ángel Corona y Benjamín Ortiz Espejel, Universidad Iberoamericana- Puebla, Mexico
Environmentally Displaced People and Migration Policies in the 21st Century. Carolina Abreu Batista, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brasil 
Environmental  migration,  vulnerability  and  gender  in  Mexico:  the  case  of  migrant 
peasants  in  the  state  of  Morelos,  Adriana  Estrada  y  Úrsula  Oswald,  CRIM-UNAM  – 
Mexico
Moderator: Pablo de la Vega, Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos Segundo Montes, Ecuador 
Room 11. Transnational Families and Caretakers
Relationships  in  the  care  of  the  sons  and  daughters  of  migrants  in  the  country  of 
departure.  The  case  of  Columbia,  Amparo  Micolta  León,  Universidad  del  Valle, 
Columbia
Transnational  maternities:  care  and  affection  mediated  through  the  technologies  of 
information and communication, María Carmen Peñaranda, Universidad Autónoma de 
Barcelona, Spain
The  chains  that  bind.    Female  migration  and  family  reconfiguration  in  Cochabamba, 
Isabel  Yépez,  Carmen  Ledo  y  Mirko  Marzadro,  Universidad  Católica  de  Lovaina, 
Universidad San Simón y Università IUAV de Venecia, Belgium-Bolivia-Italy
Migration  and  caretakers  in  the  Southern  Cone:  the  case  of  the  chain  of  caretakers 
between  Paraguay  and  Argentina,  Norma  Sanchís  y  Corina  Rodríguez  Enríquez, 
Asociación Lola Mora, CONICET y CIEPP, Argentina
Moderator: Mar García, ONU Mujeres 
Room 12. Migrations and State Policies
Migratory governability in Argentina: a critique of the policies of control with a "human 
face", Eduardo Domenech, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba,  Argentina
Law  and  migration  policy  in  Chile:  ambivalence  in  the  comprehension  of  migrants, 
Carolina Stefoni Espinoza, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile
The construction of emigration policies in the Ecuadorian state: the case of "Ecuadorian 
Homes"  in  the  exterior,  William  Herrera,  Universidad  Paris  I  Panthéon-Sorbonne, 
France
A  contribution  to  transnational  debate:  the  transmigrant    public  policy  of  the 
destination  countries,  Elena  Sanchez  Montinajo,  GRITIM-Universitat  Pompeu  Fabra  y 
CIDOB, Spain
Migration, governance and governability: reflections on the scale, place and the spaces 
of  migrants  in  the  political  sphere,  Cristobal  Mendoza,  Universidad  Autónoma-
Iztapalapa, Mexico
Moderator: María Mercedes Eguiguren, Universidad Católica de Lovaina, Bélgica 
Room 13. The Socio-Cultural Impact of Migrations
LCanadian temporary migration programs: a socio-cultural perspective, James Restrepo, 
Universidad de Western Ontario, Canada
 
Culture  and  identity  in  the  communities  of  origin  of  migrants:  Ocampo,  Guanajuato, 
Mexico, Brigitte Lamy Archambault , Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Positive  experiences  in  Central  American  migration  in  route  through  Mexico  in  the 
localities  of  Veracruz,  Tabasco  and  the  State  of  Mexico,  Mariana  Flores  Castillo, 
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Moderator: Diego Cando, FLACSO Ecuador 
Room 14 . Policies of Returning
Migration  and  return  to  Ecuador:  Between  political  discourse  and  State  policy,  María 
Isabel Moncayo, FLACSO Ecuador
Voluntary and forced return of migrants in the context of the economic crisis and the 
common  migration  policy  of  the  European  Union,  Francisco  Durán,  Universidad  de 
Granada, Spain
Motivations for return migration. What are the implications for development?, Carlos 
Nieto, Universidad Católica de Lovain- La Neuve, Belgium
 
From the relative absence to growing presence: Return migration in the Andean Region 
setting.  The  cases  of  Peru  and  Ecuador,  Lorena  Izaguirre,  Pontificia  Universidad 
Católica del Peru
Moderator: Jacques Ramírez, IAEN, Ecuador 
Room 15 . Migration and Local Politics
Migration policy in San Francisco, California: political participation of migrants in local 
spaces,  Paola  Suarez  Ávila,  Centro  de  Investigaciones  y  Estudios  Superiores  de 
Antropología Social (CIESAS, DF) Mexico
Practices  and  discourses  of  co-development:  the  (re)functionalization  of  transnational 
links.    The  case  of  the  high  valley  of  Cochabamba-Bolivia,  Yolanda  Alfaro,  FLACSO 
Ecuador
Differentiated  impacts  of  the  global  crisis  and  its  impact  on  local  spaces:  approaches 
from the study of Bolivian and  Ecuadorian migration in Spain,  Pilar Cruz, Universidad 
de Sevilla, Spain
Circular labor migration in Spain, the Columbian case: impact on communities of origin, 
Marta Carballo, Instituto Universitario Desarrollo y Cooperación, IUDC-UCM, Spain
The  impact  of  the  global  economic  crisis  on  the  Hatun  Cañar  territory,  Miguel 
Canguana, Unidad Educativa Intercultural Bilingüe Sisid, Ecuador
Moderator: Glenda Yager, Casa de la Movilidad Humana, Ecuador 
Room 16 . Migratory Labor Management and Human Rights (ILO)
Migratory labor management in Spain, María Dolores Hernandez, Embajada de España 
en Ecuador, Spain
Migratory  labor  management:  a  challenge  for  the  governance  of  the  Andean  region. An analysis from policy style and focus on networks, Carla Tamagno, OIT MIGRANDINA
Migratory  labor  management  in  Columbia:  in  search  of  the  lost  direction,  William 
Mejía, Red Alma Mater, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Columbia
Global  economic  crisis  and  opportunities  of  skilled  migration,  Jorge  Martinez  Pizarro, 
CELADE
Towards  the  construction  of  an  information  system  on  migrant  labor:  the  role  of 
academic networks, Norma Velasquez, Universidad Católica Sede Sapientiae, Peru
Moderator: José Luis Ibañez, OIT 
Room 17 . Youth, Children and Migration
Fenster,  Haus,  Heimweg:  the  school  experiences  of  the  children  of  (Ecuadorian) 
migrants in Germany, María Fernanda Moscoso, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
From  the  point  of  view  of  those  who  stay:  constructions  of  reason  for  children  of 
migrants regarding life experiences with fathers and/or mothers at a distance, Cynthia 
Viridiana García Martigñon, UNAM, Mexico
Youth  in  la  Carpio:  Segregation  and  ways  of  life  in  a  transnational  community,  Jorge 
Daniel Vásquez, Universidad de La Salle, Costa Rica
Citizenship  from  the  perspective  of  young  children  of  Mexican  migrants  in  the  United 
States: the role of formal spaces and non-formal spaces in the processes of citizenship 
formation, Alfonso Cruz  y María Teresa Yurén, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de 
Morelos, Mexico
Moderator: Berenice Cordero, UNICEF 
Room 18. Transformations in the Migratory Trajectories of Latin America
¿A  papá  mono  con  bananas  verdes?  A  comparative  analysis  of  labor  trajectories  of 
Argentine migrants in times of crisis, Luciana Gandini, El Colegio de Mexico
Crossing the Atlantic in Search of New Destinations: Contemporary African Migration to Latin America. Luisa Feline Freier, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Inglaterra 
From Disney to Chavez: Venezuelan Migrants in the U.S. Lourdes Gouveia, Rogelio Saenz y Jasney Cogua, University of Nebraska, Estados Unidos 
The  cyclical  Bolivian  return:  an  arcane  model  as  input  for  actual  reflection  on  the 
migration  and  development  debate,  Leonardo  de  la  Torre,  Cancillería  del  Estado 
Plurinacional de Bolivia
The  migratory  phenomenon  of  Mexicans  in  the  United  States  through  three  historic 
eras in Mexico: 1810, 1910 and 2010, Adolfo Laborde, Revista Foreign Policy, Edición 
Mexicana, Mexico
Moderator: Ruben Puentes, Red Internacional de Migración y Desarrollo, Uruguay 
Room 19. Analysis of Projects, Policies and Attention for Migrants
Structure,  function  and  models  of  attention  of  the  civil  support  organizations  for 
migrants on the northern border of Mexico, José Ascención Moreno Mena, Margarita 
Barajas y Leticia Figueroa, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico
Results of the project: young construction workers from El Salvador, all for one and one 
for all, Katharine Andrade Eekhoff, Catholic Relief Services, San Salvador, El Salvador, 
Unites States
International migrations and the education processes in Guatemala: reflections on an 
inter-institutional  and  inter-sectorial  management  scheme,  Irene  Palma,  INCEDES, 
Guatemala
The  United  States  health  system  and  reproductive  health  of  migrants,  Miguel 
Moctezuma, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico
Moderator: Mario Cadena, Secretaría Nacional del Migrante de Ecuador 
Room 20 . Migration, Identities and Ethnicities
Territorial  identity  as  a  criterion  of  social  hierarchy  and  mechanism 
legitimization  of  territorial  control  practices.  Immigrants  and  natives  in 
Santa  Cruz,  southern  Patagonia  Argentina,  Laura  Rincón,  Universidad  Externado  de 
Colombia, Columbia
Peruvian  immigrants  in  Chile.    Comprehension  of  the  migratory  project  from  the 
aspirations of the immigrants, Grace Silva, Universidad de Concepción de Chile
Anthropology  and  migration.  Four  contributions  to  understand  AMCO  emigration 
(Columbia),  Gregorio  Hernandez  Pulgarín,  Grupo  de  Investigación  Territorialidades-Universidad de Caldas, Columbia
Transnationalization of indigenous spirituality and mystical tourism, Jean Paul Sarrazin, 
Universidad de Poitiers, France
Moderator: Lourdes Gouveia, University of Nebraska, Estados Unidos 
Principal panels
Adriana Piscitelli, UNICAMP, Brasil
. Economic, Sexual and Emotional  Exchanges in  Transnational Brazilian Sex Market
Fernando Lozano, CRIM UNAM, Mexico. Skilled migration and human development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Maria Eugenia Anguiano, Colegio de la Frontera, Mexico 
From  National  borders  to  regional  borders:  the  actions  and  policies  containment  in 
three countries of transit migration
Sandra Gil, CONICET, Argentina. MInternational  Migration,  Security  and  Development  in  European  Union  Migration 
Policies of (or how to advance the frontiers of Europe)