Exclusion and Forced Migration in Central America - No More Walls

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). 

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Carlos Sandoval-García
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9783319519227
• ISBN: 978-3-31-951922-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 10 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 275 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 120 p.
• Series: Mobility & Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Migration, C, Amerika, Peace, Conflict Studies, Economic Sociology, Political Science, International Relations, biotechnology, Warfare & defence, Migration, immigration & emigration, Political Science and International Studies, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Public Administration, Public Policy, Sociology: work & labour, Emigration and immigration, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies, Latin America—Politics and government, South & Central America (including Mexico), Latin America, Latin American Politics, Sociology: work and labour