Abstract

FRESNEDA, Edel J.. Re-thinking the Transnational Dispersion of Vulnerability: binationality as strategy. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2022, n.23, pp.37-75.  Epub Apr 04, 2022. ISSN 2007-4964.  https://doi.org/10.55555/is.23.400.

This article addresses the relationship between migration and development by revisiting the discussion on marginality in Latin American development. The aim is to elucidate the transnational dispersion of vulnerability that occurs through migration as marginalized people strive to access certain structures and assets and form relations with new agents and institutions within transnational alternatives of social reproduction. In relation to the latter aspect, the results of an earlier empirical study are added here to demonstrate how binationality reinforces migratory strategies within a specific kind of development. The result of this configuration is a substantive explanation of the correlation between migration and development in the Latin American context, one that considers the interrelation among the following main factors: a) the imbalances that result from the global, but unequal, integration of the economies in the region; b) the consequent disadvantageous situation that certain population segments face, defined here as relative social marginality; and c) migratory strategies as alternatives in which binationality is one mechanism that extends social reproduction to the transnational sphere in the face of uprooting and weak opportunities for achieving this under the conditions of a particular type of development.

Keywords : migration; unequal development; relative social marginality; transnational dispersion of vulnerability; binationality.

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