ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the significant changes that are taking place in migratory patterns as a result of globalization, especially with regard to Bolivian emigration to Brazil and Argentina. In Brazil, as in Argentina, Bolivian migration has had its own specific characteristics, in that it has distinguished itself from other 'classic migratory' flows. As a result of the rampancy of 'Chinese prices' in the clothing industry since the beginning of the 1990s, a new migratory pattern seems to have emerged, compatible with the creation of a new industrial labour force. Often migratory flows are facilitated through family networks in destination countries. In Argentina as in Brazil the classification of 'casual workers' is problematic. When classification and computation are crossed with an analysis of migratory flows and migrant destinations per economic activity, the issue becomes even more complex, as it then pervades the political and ideological sphere.
