Migraciones internacionales en Uruguay: de pueblo transplantado a diáspora vinculada

• Autores: Javier Taks
• Localización: Theomai: estudios sobre sociedad, naturaleza y desarrollo, ISSN-e 1515-6443, Nº. 14, 2006
• Idioma: español
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  • This paper describes the main historical trends on international migration and development in Uruguay, with particular focus on the recent shift from an immigration profile to a Diaspora country. It is estimated that 13% of the current population is living abroad. It is argued that it was not until recent years that official attention to Uruguayans living abroad joined peoples¿ attitudes towards a renovated sense of the nation trespassing the traditional geographic and symbolic limits of the nation-state. Thus, there is an open arena of dispute about political participation and transnational citizenship, along with a more complex definition of national identity, which is expressed in the various reactions of political opposition, NGO, international organizations and migrants to the new public policies proposed by the left-wing government.