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This article discusses a paper presented at a conference organized by the Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala (Academy of Geography and History of Guatemala), on July 9, 2014, on the history of the French School of Geography. The influence of Élisée Reclus and Paul Vidal de La Blache, 19th century French geographers, is also explored.

The article presents information on the inter-congress meeting of the International Sociological Association titled "From the Emigration to the Immigration in Europe," which was held in Normandy, France from June 2-6, 2005. Firstly, Stephen Castles, the director of the Centre of Refugee Studies, Oxford University, Great Britain, realized an intervention indicating the shortcomings of the investigators present there. Then, Robin Cohen, professor of Sociology and investigator of the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick, Warwickshire, England, insisted on the dimensions of the law and on an opening very far from what politically mark as line the countries that now receive contingent migratory and are in the center.