Migraciones internacionales en Uruguay: de pueblo trasplantado a diáspora vinculada

Abstract

This paper describes the main historical trends on international migration and development in Uruguay, with particular focus on the recent shift from an immigration profile to a Diaspora country. It is estimated that 13% of the current population is living abroad. It is argued that it was not until recent years that official attention to Uruguayans living abroad joined peoples? attitudes towards a renovated sense of the nation trespassing the traditional geographic and symbolic limits of the nation-state. Thus, there is an open arena of dispute about political participation and transnational citizenship, along with a more complex definition of national identity, which is expressed in the various reactions of political opposition, NGO, international organizations and migrants to the new public policies proposed by the left-wing government.

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