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El objetivo del presente trabajo es identificar algunos de los obstáculos que enfrentan las personas migrantes residentes en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA) para ejercer sus derechos políticos. Para ello, en primer lugar, se justificará la importancia de la extensión de los derechos políticos reconocidos a esta población para el fortalecimiento de las democracias en los países de destino. En segundo lugar, se abordarán los límites impuestos por la Constitución Argentina y la Ley de Migraciones 25.871 para el ejercicio del voto migrante a nivel federal. En tercer lugar, se analizarán los distintos derechos políticos reconocidos en la CABA, antes y después de la sanción del Código Electoral en 2018, y los diferentes obstáculos quehan enfrentado y que, eventualmente, podrían enfrentar las personas migrantes para ejercerlos, a partir de 2020. En cuarto lugar, se evaluarán las condiciones para ejercer el voto y los niveles de participación de la población migrante en las elecciones realizadas en la CABA en los años 2015, 2017 y 2019, y se extraerán algunas conclusiones con vistas a mejorar las condiciones de votación en las próximas elecciones, con el nuevo Código Electoral vigente. ; The objective of this work is to identify some of the obstacles faced by migrants residing in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA for its acronym in Spanish) to exercise their political rights. To this, first, the importance of extending migrants' political rights will be justified in relation to strengthening democracies in receiving countries. Secondly, the limits imposed by the Argentine Constitution and the Migration Law 25.871 to exercising the migrant right to vote at the federal level will be addressed. Thirdly, the diverse political rights recognized in CABA will be analyzed, before and after the approval of the 2018 Electoral Code, including the various obstacles that migrant persons have faced and may eventually face in exercising those rights, starting in 2020. Fourth, the conditions to exercising the right to vote and the levels of participation by the migrant population in the elections in CABA, in 2015, 2017 and 2019, will be evaluated, and some conclusions will be drawn with an eye towards improving the voting conditions in the next elections, with the new Electoral Code in force.

The history of Samoan migration to New Zealand, a demographic profile of the migrants, and the future of such migration are discussed. Migration became a serious phenomenon after independence in 1962, with primarily young, unskilled workers moving to take up jobs in the agricultural and service sectors. Remaining essentially unchanged since 1962, New Zealand's immigration policy gives preferential treatment to Western Samoans and recognizes their valuable labor contribution. The future of migration to New Zealand is discussed in the context of the costs and benefits to Western Samoa. Contrary to some observers, the author argues that emigration has been beneficial rather than deleterious to Western Samoa's development and predicts the continuation of Samoan migration to New Zealand, Australia, United States and other countries, with increased emphasis on family reunion.

This paper deals with the effects of economic crisisin the change of attitudes towards immigration, by means of alongitudinal approach via survey data. The analysis of dimensionsand indicators of xenophobia corroborates the negative effect ofeconomic turmoil and labor threat in the increase of xenophobia,in tune with Intergroup Conflict Theory. Although in 2012,rejection to immigration drew back, whereas ambivalence extendedand became tenuous tolerance. In its explanation stands outthe lowering of both real and perceived presence of immigrantpopulation, confirming the effect attributed to the out-group size.Other subjects related to the framing of attitudes add themselves: theimage of immigration transmitted by the mass media and politicaldiscourses, in addition to mutual knowledge (in accordance withthe Theory of Intergroup Contact). ; Mediante el seguimiento longitudinal de datos demoscópicos,este artículo analiza los efectos de la crisis económica en elcambio de las actitudes hacia la inmigración. El análisis de dimensionese indicadores de xenofobia corrobora el efecto negativo de lainestabilidad y la amenaza económica-laboral en el aumento de laxenofobia, en consonancia con la Teoría del conflicto intergrupal.Si bien, en 2012 el rechazo a la inmigración retrocede, mientras quela ambivalencia se amplía y configura como tenue tolerancia. En suexplicación destaca el descenso de la presencia real y percibida de lapoblación inmigrante, confirmando el efecto atribuido al tamaño delexogrupo. A él se suman otros protagonistas de la molduración delas actitudes: la imagen de la inmigración que trasmiten los mediosde comunicación y los discursos políticos, además del conocimientomutuo (de acuerdo con la Teoría del contacto intergrupal).

I. A Post-War Phenomenon -- Emigration Prior to 1940 -- The Second World war -- The Situation in the Netherlands Immediately after the war -- Factors Connected with the Urge to Emigrate -- The General Situation in 1948 -- A Lost Generation? -- The Unsettled Emigration Climate -- II. The Government Versus Private Organizations -- Government Concern with Emigration Prior to 1940 -- The Denominational Emigration Organizations Prior to 1940 -- Clay and Sand: The two Poles of Agrarian Emigration -- Growing Government Interference after 1945 -- Two Guiding Principles for the Granting of Subsidies -- Collision with the Social Organizations -- Compromise and Strategy -- III. Policy, Planning and Prognoses -- The Fear of Poverty -- The Fear of "Over-Population" -- Population Problems and Emigration Policy -- Industrialization and Emigration -- The Bottle-Neck of "Emigration Planning" in a Democratic System -- "Planned Migration" in the Light of Actual Developments -- IV. Organized Emigration in Practice -- Vertical Ideological Pluralism in the Netherlands -- The Organization of the Voluntary Agencies -- Emigration Procedure -- Government Policy and Group Policy -- V. Socioreligious Group Characteristics -- Religious Denomination and Country of Destination -- Registration Organ and Country of Destination -- Registration Organ and Religious Denomination -- Emigrant, Registration Organ and Religious Denomination -- Socioreligious Structure and the Continuity of Emigration -- VI. At Group Level: Points of View and Attitudes Adopted with Reference to Emigration -- The Roman Catholics -- The Calvinists -- Remaining Groups -- VII. The Dynamics of Social Change -- Increased Prosperity and Communication -- The Integration of Parts. a New Frame of Reference -- New Conceptions Regarding the Population Problem -- The Netherlands and European Migration -- VIII. Adaptation of the Emigration Policy -- Increasing Isolation -- Two Specific Drawbacks -- Those who Returned -- Criticism of the Emigration Policy -- The Defence -- From "Active" Policy to "Positive" Policy -- Summary and Conclusions -- Thwarted Exodus -- The Group Character of Netherlands Emigration -- The Conservative Type of Migration -- Appendices -- 1. Adjoining chapter V, "Emigrant, registration organ and religious denomination." Primary and/or sociologically relevant data -- 2. Idem. Questions directly connected with emigration -- 3. Migration to and from the Netherlands, 1900–1962 -- References.