Tejiendo redes para futuras movilidades: las interacciones sociales y el capital social en la migración emergente de México a Estados Unidos Weaving Networks for Future Mobilities: Social Interaction and Social Capital In Emerging Migration from Mexico to the United States

Resumen

In recent decades, Mexico-U.S. migration has been redefined: places of origin and destinations, migrant profiles, and the labor markets they join. This article proposes a sociological framework for understanding the recent dynamics of emerging migrations, like their heterogeneity and speed-up. Basing ourselves on the concepts of social networks and social capital, we analyze the role social interaction and networks play, as actions with a meaning oriented by others, in the origin and maintenance of international migration in societies that previously did not have them.