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Trajectories of Forced Migration: Central American Migrants on Their Way Toward the USA.
- Source :
- Journal on Migration & Human Security; Mar2024, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p39-53, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Executive Summary: Mexico is increasingly important as a country of transit migration between the Global South and the Global North. Migration dynamics from Central America to and through Mexico are mainly considered as economic or mixed migration of people looking for work and a better life in the USA. Nevertheless, since the 2010s the number of asylum applications in Mexico has sky rocketed. Based on a survey of Central American migrants in Mexico we demonstrate that some kind of (organized) violence was a crucial driver for leaving and a constant companion during their journey. After contextualizing the migration route from the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) toward Mexico, we present the design of the study, describe sociodemographic and general contexts of the 350 interviewees, and present the migration trajectories as long-lasting sequences of events and stays, where violence in quite different forms always is at play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FORCED migration
DEVELOPING countries
IMMIGRANTS
PRODUCTIVE life span
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23315024
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal on Migration & Human Security
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175231490
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/23315024231216109