International Migration as an Issue on Today's Inter-American Agenda

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ID4547720
AuthorsChristopher Mitchell (0000-0001-6523-0382, New York University, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume36
Issue3
Pages93-110
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/166528
OpenAlexW2282173482
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited8

As a frequent concern both of governments and of the public at large in Western Hemisphere nations, international migration is now more prominent than at any time since 1980. The episodic flow of seaborne refugees from Haiti since 1991 has been a key factor in spurring the inter-American community to oppose Haiti's military rulers. The flotilla of rafts leaving Cuba since early August 1994 has engendered high-profile negotiations on migration between Washington and Havana. The stream of undocumented labor migrants from Mexico to the United States has regained momentum since the late 1980s and is encountering increased public criticism, especially in the western United States.Underlying these instances of political tension is a strong, and only partially-met, demand for migration to the United States from parts of Latin America and the Caribbean on the one hand, and a growing anxiety in the US to "control the nation's borders" on the other

Criticism · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Ethnology · Latin Americans · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Western hemisphere · Cuban History and Society · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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