Laboratory

Migration and Mobility

Project

Assessing Migration Patterns in Latin America by Combining Traditional and Digital Trace Data Sources

Emilio Zagheni, Emanuele Del Fava, Victoria Prieto Rosas (MPIDR / Programa de Población, Universidad de la República, Uruguay); in Collaboration with Julieta Bengochea, Camila Montiel (both: Programa de Población, Universidad de la República, Uruguay), Gabriel Barasch (Neuronal, Argentina), Martín Pedemonte (University of the Republic, School of Engineering, Montevideo, Uruguay)

This project investigates south-south migration flows and stocks in Uruguay and other Latin American countries, using traditional data (censuses, surveys, and administrative registers) as well as digital trace data and online surveys. Detailed Description

Research Keywords:

Data and Surveys, International Migration, Ethnic Minorities, Migration

Region keywords:

America, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

Links:

Big Data y movilidad en América Latina y el Caribe

Population Program

Publications

Prieto Rosas, V.; Bengochea Soria, J.:

International migration in South America

In: The Routledge history of modern Latin American migration, 62–77. New York: Routledge. (2023)

Wang, Z.; Prieto Rosas, V.; Márquez Scotti, C.; Bengochea Soria, J.:

The social inclusion of migrants between policy and practice: lessons from Uruguay

International Migration Review, 1–11. (2023)

Bengochea Soria, J.; Del Fava, E.; Prieto Rosas, V.; Zagheni, E.:

Leveraging census data to study migration flows in Latin America and the Caribbean: an assessment of the available data sources

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-019. (2021)

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