Central American Migration: A Framework for Analysis
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Vol. 26 (1) , 75-110
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100034920
Abstract
The subject of Central American migration encompasses a broad range of experiences that challenge traditional approaches to migration studies. Past interpretations of migration have tended to be based on mutually exclusive typologies or to focus on certain dimensions of migration while excluding others. Thus migration could be internal or international, cyclical, temporary, or permanent, voluntary or involuntary, economically or politically motivated (the latter issue often treated in a separate literature on refugees and exiles), motivated by “push” factors in the country of origin or “pull” factors in the receiving country, or the result of individual decisions or underlying structural conditions.Keywords
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