Employment crisis in Spain and return migration of Bolivians: an overview

Abstract

What are the interfaces between economic and employment crises and the dynamics of international mobility? This paper draws an overview of the Bolivian migrants in Spain taking into account the Spanish employment crisis and how the crisis impacted the dynamics of the return migration. The first section includes the theoretical implications of return patterns and how different perspectives have explained this phenomenon over the last decades. Secondly, we present the Spanish migratory context and its main features with special interest on the main Latin American communities and the evolution of their flows. The third section focus on the specific case of the Bolivian migrants in Spain, presenting an analysis of the main determinants marking the return intention of the Bolivian migrants residing in Spain. To conclude, the paper draws some considerations on economic crisis, migration and return patterns.