US immigration policies have not deterred migration, but they have made the process longer and more difficult for migrants.
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Locals from Asunción Mita, Guatemala recently voted against the development of mining activities in their municipality, in a referendum contested by a Canadian mining company that owns a gold mine.
Fussy about moisture and temperature, ferns are excellent indicators of environmental change.
International refugee law must be overhauled to consider climate change and include “deadly environments” as a form of persecution.
In Latin America, common citizens have often donned outlandish outfits and comic book-inspired personas to lead demonstrations and promote social change.
Honduras is the most dangerous country in the world for environmental activists. Those who have opposed mining, hydroelectric, logging and tourism have faced violence and death.
Biden’s $4 billion plan to fight crime, corruption and poverty in Central America is massive. But aid can’t build viable democracies if ‘predatory elites’ won’t help their own people.
Children and families have been fleeing to the US in rising numbers for nearly a decade. So why is the current situation at the US-Mexico border being viewed as something new?
Rather than denigrating other nations as banana republics for their penchant for insurrections and lawless coups, the United States needs to take a long look inward following the raid on the Capitol.
Millions of sacks of beans for export have been stuck in warehouses during the crisis.
The US is violating its own law governing treatment of refugees.
Canada is playing a role in the life-and-death struggle for migrant justice in the United States – from our foreign economic policies to the actions of our mining companies and domestic asylum laws.
The U.S. will likely continue to threaten Mexico with trade tariffs due to Central American migrants, and Mexico will respond with more drastic, inhumane measures. None of it will stop migration.
Trump has expanded and escalated the most punitive policies he inherited from his predecessors.
Done right, aid fosters greater stability and boosts the economy. That reduces incentives to move away.
Thousands of Central American migrants are trying to cross the U.S. southern border. One scholar followed their paths to find out why they make the dangerous, sometimes deadly, journey.
As migrant caravans become commonplace, life goes on along the frontera sur where tumultuous Central America and the poorest part of Mexico meet.
Immigration experts explain who’s really trying to cross the US-Mexico border, what they want — and why immigration, even undocumented immigration, actually benefits the country.
Donald Trump portrays migrants as a foreign problem ‘dumped’ on America’s doorstep. That view ignores the global forces that bind nations together, including trade, climate change and colonization.
Two trucks carrying migrants have gone missing in Veracruz, Mexico. A witness says that ‘65 children and seven women were sold’ to a band of armed men. Other caravan members have reached the border.
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Assistant Professor of Human Service Studies, Elon University
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Director of Research, Florida International University
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Assistant Professor of Human Security, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor Human Rights & Human Diversity, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Profesor-Investigador, ECOSUR
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PhD Candidate, Media Studies, Western University
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Director of the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Massey University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Professor in Latin American Politics, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Family Law, University of South Carolina
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Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Professor of Geography, Vassar College
