Vol. 46 No. 84 (2019): Apuntes 84

This issue of Apuntes concentrates primarily on migration. The first article examines the way that deportation of Mexican immigrants from the US. inflicts different forms of suffering on both the immigrants and their families, while the second conceptually discusses the social suffering associated with return migration. The third study evaluates post-deportation mobility strategies employed by Mexican emigrants in Oaxaca. Using a different approach, the fourth article explores the suffering of Cuban migrants in Ecuador with emphasis on the social, economic and legal discrimination that exists despite provisions to the contrary in the Ecuadorian constitution. Similarly, the fifth study addresses the relationship between humanitarianism and migratory control in Argentine international migration policies, discussing the processes of ambivalent categorization of immigrants as victims and/or threats. The sixth article on migration focuses on the policies of states of origin towards their emigrants and provides a descriptive panorama of the options chosen by Latin American and Caribbean countries.  Finally, the last paper aims to demonstrate the possible existence of opportunistic political-economic cycles in current and capital expenditures in the municipalities of the state of Rio Grande do Sul from 2009 to 2016. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.21678/0252-1865-00460084