Latin America

Migration, Cities & Big Data

This presentation summarises collaborative work on internal migration in Latin American cities. It also proposes ways how twitter data and machine learning can be used to measure internal migration and an approach to measure the relative importance …

Efectos cambiantes de la migración sobre el crecimiento, la estructura demográfica y la segregación residencial en ciudades grandes. El caso de Santiago, Chile, 1977-2017

En este texto se usa el caso del area metropolitana del Gran Santiago (AMGS), capital de Chile, para evaluar empíricamente el efecto de la de la migración interna, incluyendo la intrametropolitana, sobre algunas transformaciones metropolitanas.

How is internal migration reshaping metropolitan populations in Latin America? A new method and new evidence

We propose a method to quantify the internal migration impacts on local population structures, and estimate these impacts for eight large Latin American cities.

Comparing internal migration across the countries of Latin America. A multidimensional approach

We use recently developed measures of internal migration that are scale-independent to compare the overall intensity, age composition, spatial impact, and distance profile of internal migration in 19 Latin American countries.