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The Reflexive Subaltern History of Central America-US Informal Migration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3036141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R E Barrios (0009-0008-2215-7232, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-120 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Migration and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2574-1306 • E-ISSN: 2574-1314 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/arms.2025.0122of7 |
| OpenAlex | W4414012370 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Contemporary discourse on the part of the US State Department and immigration authorities represents informal migration from Central America as a transgression of dubious and potentially criminal subjects who assail the United States. Such a representation relies on a memory that draws a purposeful blind eye to the history of colonial extraction and post-colonial "development" that has marginalized and brutalized Central America's indigenous populations and working poor, as well as US involvement in sustaining and enhancing the root causes of informal migration. This article asks how we can narrate the history of informal migration's root causes in Central America, and how such a narrative illuminates the operations of the Anti-Refugee Machine in this part of the world
Geography · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropology · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |