LEVELS, TRENDS, ORIGINS AND DESTINATIONS INTERNAL MIGRATION OF HONDURAS, 1988-2013

Abstract

Migration is the displacement with the transfer of residence of people from a place of origin or departure to a place of destination or arrival, which implies crossing the boundaries of a geographical division (UIECP and CELADE, 1985). It is a component of the demographic dynamics together with fertility and mortality, which contributes doubly through immigration entry and exit through emigration. Internal migrations include the displacements of people who cross geographical boundaries such as Major Administrative Divisions (DAM) and Minor Administrative Divisions (DAME) which, although offsetting displacements in a national way allows estimating volumes, flows, proportions, balances, rates and characteristics of absolute or recent migration. The objective of this article is to present, as an update, the main levels, trends and internal migration preferences in Honduras in the period 1988-2013, measured through their relative amount and magnitude, volumes, proportions, balances, rates, flows , places of attraction and expulsion, as well as the new configurations that are occurring in people's movements. The data source used is the Population and Housing Census of Honduras (CNPV) from 1950 to 2013, to a greater extent all three, of the last twenty-five years. The Honduran censuses before 1974 used the de facto or de facto modality, as of that year they have used the yure or the law modality and even the last two have used the concept of household domestic unit. This research, with a descriptive nature, aims to study the internal migration phenomenon based on census data generated from open access bases to build or use migration matrices at the level of DAM (department) and DAME (municipality), both of the absolute and recent migration. Three basic questions of the census questionnaires are used: place of birth for the matrix of absolute migration and place of residence five years before the census to build the matrix of recent migration and, place of registration, for both matrices.