Theories of migration and history of the present: a creative approach

Historians who practice the present-day history of international migration are immersed in dilemmas and theoretical-methodological challenges that must be unraveled. About what historiographic approach or tradition, and what theories of migration to resort to to understand the dynamic complexity of...

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Main Author: Fernández Guzmán, Eduardo
Format: Online
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de El Salvador. Facultad Multidisciplinaria Oriental 2024
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Online Access:https://revistas.ues.edu.sv/index.php/conjsociologicas/article/view/3219
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Summary:Historians who practice the present-day history of international migration are immersed in dilemmas and theoretical-methodological challenges that must be unraveled. About what historiographic approach or tradition, and what theories of migration to resort to to understand the dynamic complexity of the last decades of the migration phenomenon. We start from the conviction that if the historian is historiographically based on the French Annales School, the theories of the Migratory Process and the Modernist can fit into the comprehensive study of the present of migration. The objective is to seek convergence between theory and historiography of migrations, without meaning that this is the panacea for current studies of international migration. The methodology used is documentary, since the bibliographic and newspaper review gives it theoretical, historical and contextual support