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Exclusion and Forced Migration in Central America: No More Walls

By Carlos Sandoval-García (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
978-3-319-51922-7, 978-3-319-51923-4
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-51923-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5701591 bytes)
Series
Mobility & Politics
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 120\128
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Economic SociologyLatin American Politics;Migration;Public Policy;Co

Description

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration. Each year, thousands of Central Americans leave their countries and walk across Mexico, seeking to reach the United States.The author explores the dispossession process that drives these migrants from their homes and argues that they are caught in a kind of trap: forced to emigrate, but impeded to immigrate. This trap is discussed empirically through the analysis of immigration policies implemented by the United States government and ethnographic fieldwork carried out in some of “albergues” (shelters).

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