LatCrit: Santa Domingo: May 12-14

As the world globalizes in terms of nations’ economies, trade and investment, borders are opened up more easily for “freer” flows of capital, goods and products. But globalization has also meant millions of transnational people; according to the UN’s Population Division, there are now almost 200 million international migrants, doubling the figure recorded in 1980, only 30 years ago. Consequently, migrants are now to be found in every corner of the globe, some of them moving within their own regions and others travelling from one part of the world to another. Today, human migrations have reached higher volumes than ever before in history.

From LatCrit, Inc.:

Migratory Currents in the Americas

These migration trends present different characteristics from past times, prompting some to herald a “new” era of international migration. One key characteristic of this new era is the reconfiguration of the population movement map globally, created by a growing diversity of routes and connections—between shifting and morphing sites of origin and destination.  Immigration therefore has been an increasingly complex and important issue for policy makers, historians, sociologists, jurists and many others.  For these reasons, the SNX program centers international migration in the 2011 theme. Read more on the conference….

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