Communications Landscaping - North and Latin American Transnational Communities

Commissioned by The Rockefeller Foundation to The Communication Initiative Latin America (La Iniciativa de Comunicación) in September 2003, this project had the general purpose of drawing up a map or outline to identify: the infrastructure and legislation of transnational communities in North and Latin America; the communication strategies associated with migration processes from originating countries; and the thinking and production of materials associated with migration. The emphasis was on Mexico (Oaxaca, Puebla/Veracruz, Zacatecas), El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Guatemala, the internal migration amongst the Central American countries, and their relation to the United States. The project also aimed to learn about and understand better the nature and problems of the communicative processes of these communities, as well as the actions and the activities these involve.

The following are the final documents, in English, stemming from the above-mentioned project. The Spanish documents can be accessed by clicking here.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Methodology
• Base Document (Spanish)
• Control Matrix
• Control Panel
• Information questionnaires (Spanish)
• Research team
• Elements of the Enquiry:
  1. Academic literature review
  2. Media review
  3. Normative / legal regulatory environment review
  4. Transnational communication network of Investigators/Researchers/Writers/Programmers
  5. Interviews
  6. Country Essays




• Overview
• Deliverables