Estudios Marítimos y Sociales is a magazine published by Estudios Sociales Marítimos’s team, from the University of Mar del Plata (GESMar group). Its pages are open to circulation for scientific investigations on the social sciences field, with particular interest in issues relating the past, the present and the future of port and maritime communities. Also, the magazine’s aim is to stimulate the debate between the different disciplines of social sciences on more general issues.