Emigration of Bolivians to Argentina - one of the actual major international migratory currents in South America - has been little studied from the locations of origin. Using migration surveys carried out in 2002 in southern Bolivia, in areas of departure, this study tries to identify the migratory strategies of the peasants, to underline the determining importance of origin places on emigration, and speculates if emigration constitutes a response to the current Andean rural crisis. Furthermore, it analyses the eventual existence of a migration model on the Bolivian-Argentinean border, whose evolution would differ from the more global Bolivia-Argentina migration patterns.

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international migration rural area Argentina emigration Andes