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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255281903321

Autore

Sandoval-García Carlos

Titolo

Exclusion and Forced Migration in Central America : No More Walls / / by Carlos Sandoval-García

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-51923-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 120 p.)

Collana

Mobility & Politics, , 2731-3875

Disciplina

320.4

Soggetti

America - Politics and government

Emigration and immigration

Political planning

Peace

Politics and war

Economic sociology

American Politics

Human Migration

Public Policy

Peace and Conflict Studies

Military and Defence Studies

Economic Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction  -- 2. ‘They Flee, Not Travel’: War, Dispossession and Migration  -- 3. ‘Death Drop by Drop neither Hurts nor Angers Official Circles’: The Securitization of Migration  -- 4. ‘What Have We Done? Well, Nothing and Everything’: The Shelter Experience  -- 5. Conclusion: Resources of Hope.

Sommario/riassunto

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). .