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.
Carlos Sandoval-Garcia is Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Costa Rica.
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.