American International Journal of Social Science

The Impact of the Return of Colombian Immigrants Resident in Bogota from the United States and the Implications for Their Families
PhD Jesús M. Aparicio Gervás, PhD Karol Marcela Vásquez Rodríguez, Magister: Charles David Tilley Bilbao

Abstract
Migration in Colombia, as in the rest of Latin America, is a complex and heterogeneous matter. This situation creates the need to investigate, from a qualitative perspective and based on the ethnographic method, the migration that leads into the United States. This migration causes a subsequent return of emigrants to their country of origin, which needs to be analyzed in depth. The return of the emigrant causes major demands and needs which have been synthesized into ten conclusions that must be known and valued in order to generate the groundwork for future psychosocial proposal for a critical and proactive reflection, to assist in the construction of the new identity of the person who returns and their families.

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