ABSTRACT
Multiple patterns of mobilities act as important barometers of socio-economic, political, and cultural change in the continent and other parts of the world. This chapter traces these processes focusing on three sets of movements: first, early flows from Europe to Latin America; second, migration from Latin America to Europe and the United States; and third, movements within Latin America, before exploring the ways in which transnational ties link these together. It also argues that these processes are often underpinned by inequalities of power manifested in multiple ways, and that the complexities, multidirectionality, and transnationality of migration within and beyond Latin America is often overlooked and simplified. Variations in global economic and political development within and beyond Latin America continued to fuel international migration into and out from the region after the Second World War. The contemporary flows are indicative of the growing diversity of intra-regional migration in Latin America.
