Many members of my generation have children who have emigrated, or who plan to do so. It is increasingly common for us to face the decade of our sixties and seventies with the prospect of growing old thousands of kilometers from one or all of our descendants.
Most of the immigrants to Argentina in the 19th and 20th centuries left never to return. Today the direction of the migratory wave has reversed. The lack of relative opportunities is a motive, although, then and now, emigrants are not necessarily the poorest.