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Exclusion and Forced Migration in Central America


Exclusion and Forced Migration in Central America

No More Walls
Mobility & Politics

von: Carlos Sandoval-García

CHF 65.00

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.03.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9783319519234
Sprache: englisch

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This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.&nbsp;Each year, thousands of&nbsp;Central Americans leave their countries and walk across Mexico, seeking to reach the United States.<i>&nbsp;</i>The author explores the dispossession process that drives these migrants from their homes and argues&nbsp;that they are caught in a kind of trap:&nbsp;forced to emigrate, but impeded to immigrate.&nbsp;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).&nbsp;
<div>1. Introduction .-&nbsp;2. ‘They Flee, Not Travel’: War, Dispossession and Migration .-&nbsp;3. ‘Death Drop by Drop neither Hurts nor Angers Official Circles’: The Securitization of Migration .-&nbsp;4. ‘What Have We Done? Well, Nothing and Everything’: The Shelter Experience .-&nbsp;5. Conclusion: Resources of Hope.</div><div><br></div>
<b>Carlos Sandoval-Garcia</b>&nbsp;is Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Costa Rica.&nbsp;
This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.&nbsp;Each year, thousands of&nbsp;Central Americans leave their countries and walk across Mexico, seeking to reach the United States.<i>&nbsp;</i>The author explores the dispossession process that drives these migrants from their homes and argues&nbsp;that they are caught in a kind of trap:&nbsp;forced to emigrate, but impeded to immigrate.&nbsp;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).&nbsp;
Provides a panoramic description and interpretation of exclusion and forced immigration in Central America Contributes to the burgeoning intercultural dialogue about Central American immigration to the United States Offers an English-language study of a topic most often written about in Spanish