| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Mobility & politics |
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Mobility & politics.
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| Contents |
Exclusion and Forced Migration in Central America; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Methodology; Organization of the Chapters; 2 'Flight, Not Travel': War, Dispossession and Migration; Introduction; From War to Migration: A Glimpse from Ixcán, Guatemala; Migrations as a Structural Dimension of Central American Societies; Of Neoliberal Promises and Counterinsurgency: Plan Puebla-Panama, Plan Colombia and the Merida Initiative; Conclusions |
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3 'Death Drop by Drop Neither Hurts Nor Angers Official Circles': The Securitization of MigrationsIntroduction; Crossing Mexico; The Escalation of Border Control; Securitization and Law Enforcement; Conclusions; 4 'What Have We Done?' 'Well, Everything and Nothing': The Shelter Experience; Introduction; Challenging the Sealing of the Southern Border; 'What Did We Do? Well, Nothing and Everything'; Surpassing Victimization; Conclusions; 5 Conclusion: Resources of Hope; References; Index |
| Summary |
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) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 29, 2017) |
| Subject |
Migration, Internal -- Central America
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Forced migration -- Central America
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Refugees -- Central America
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Central Americans -- Mexico, Southeast
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Immigrants -- Mexico, Southeast
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Migration, immigration & emigration.
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Public administration.
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Peace studies & conflict resolution.
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Warfare & defence.
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Sociology: work & labour.
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Politics & government.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Central Americans
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Emigration and immigration
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Forced migration
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Immigrants
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Migration, Internal
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Refugees
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| SUBJECT |
Central America -- Emigration and immigration
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Mexico, Southeast -- Emigration and immigration
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| Subject |
Central America
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Southeast Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meyers, Kari, translator.
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| ISBN |
9783319519234 |
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3319519239 |
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