Transnational Migration, Globalization, and Governance

Theorizing a Crisis

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ID23628928
AuthorsChantal Thomas (Cornell University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages882-920
Publication date2016-11-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/law/9780198701958.003.0044
OpenAlexW2583486262
ISBN9780198701958
LanguageEN
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This chapter emphasizes the role of political economy, and the ways in which global governance has affected (or failed to affect) it, in generating immigration crises. Going beyond politics toward political economy illuminates both the origins of US intervention in Central America, and the ways in which that intervention has shaped migration from the region. US involvement stemmed from global power struggles over the organization of economic production: namely, its concerns about the turn to socialism, particularly after the Cuban Revolution. If foreign policy origins stemmed from economics, often so did policy tools; such measures oriented Central American economies towards the US as a destination for its exports, and increased the Central American presence of US investors and imports. They also engendered profound changes in Central American economic life: changes that each in their own way have reinforced patterns contributing to the current migration surge.

Communism · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Immigration · Intervention (counseling) · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Socialism · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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