1. Collaboratory Guatemala Household Survey
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Villamizar Chaparro, Santiago Mateo, Wibbels, Erik, Romero, Diego, Nagle, Gabriela, and Rauf, Shanze
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climate change ,clientelism ,Political Science ,FOS: Political science ,intimate partner violence ,corruption ,Comparative Politics ,coyote ,bureaucracy ,Social and Behavioral Sciences ,migration - Abstract
The past few years have witnessed a large increase in out-migration from Central America, purportedly due to a mixture of violence, food insecurity, political unrest, desire for family reunification and lack of economic opportunity. Advocacy groups, nongovernmental organizations and news reports have gathered evidence on these push factors, but there remains a dearth of systematic studies into the relative importance of various drivers of migration and the interplay between them. Likewise, there is almost no academic research on the social and economic impact of U.S. deportations on the deported when they arrive in their home countries or on families and communities of migrants at risk of deportation. El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras suffer from high levels of gang violence, corruption, and the presence of transnational criminal organization that use them as transit points in trafficking drugs from South America to the U.S. Areas in the region struggle to cope with the impact on agriculture of rainfall variations related to climate change and associated increases in food insecurity. Search for economic opportunity - the World Bank estimates a poverty rate of 66 percent in Honduras, 60 percent in Guatemala and 29 percent in El Salvador - also contributes to migration. Lack of subnational data has limited the ability of researchers to disentangle the relative importance of multiple drivers of migration from these countries, hampering both understanding and effective policy response. Many of those who reach the United States end up as undocumented migrants or have unsuccessful asylum cases. Failed asylum cases and expanded ICE raids in recent years are resulting in large numbers of deportees, some of whom have spent decades in the U.S. The United States deports tens of thousands of individuals to Central America each year, but little is known about systematic effects of these deportations on deportees or the affected communities in the U.S. A recent agreement between the U.S. and Guatemala has resulted in the arrival of migrants from all over the world at the airport in Guatemala, where the government has a lot of difficulties on how to integrate deportees into society.
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- 2022
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