Skilled workers and exiles became labor activists in their new homes, unskilled Italians workers, though more ambivalent, were not docile. Though not hostile to either organization or radical ideology, they tended to isolation and marginality when their preferences were not coincident with those, of local workers. Their patterns of action were influenced both by class and culture. In the last decades, a new demographic phenomenon aroused in Argentina, which has traditionally been a receiving country. The emigration of Argentines is today an evident fact since the increasing rate of negative migration imbalances and the growing demand for double citizenship among young Argentines.
Current results show that pull factors and perception of potential work and economic oportunities.
The approach aims at explaining differences in trends and preferences of Galician migrants to America. The positive role of micro-social factors and of informal networks is stressed as far as information, financiation, support and integration are concerned, which allowed many emigrants to choose their geographical and working destination on the basis of preestablished connections. The role of emigration in familial strategies is analyzed, as well as the different sources of information available to Galician families and to would be emigrants at the time of making their decisions. The paper posits the importance of chain migration as a means of reuniting families. Colombia has been experiencing, in the last decades, different kinds of spatial mobility towards the United States, Europe, Venezuela and other countries in Latin America.