Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

by Mauricio Espinoza (Editor), Miroslava Arely Rosales V疽quez (Editor), Ignacio Sarmiento (Editor)

The reality of Central American migrations is broad, diverse, multidirectional, and uncertain. It also offers hope, resistance, affection, solidarity, and a sense of community for a region that has one of the highest rates of human displacement in the world.

Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century tackles head-on the way Central America has been portrayed as a region profoundly marked by the migration of its people. Through an intersectional approach, this volume demonstrates how the migration experience is complex and affected by gender, age, language, ethnicity, social class, migratory status, and other variables. Contributors carefully examine a broad range of topics, including forced migration, deportation and outsourcing, intraregional displacements, the role of social media, and the representations of human mobility in performance, film, and literature. The volume establishes a productive dialogue between humanities and social sciences scholars, and it paves the way for fruitful future discussions on the region's complex migratory processes.

Contributors
Guillermo Acu
Andrew Bentley
Fiore Bran-Arag
Tiffanie Clark
Mauricio Espinoza
Hilary Goodfriend
Leda Carolina Lozier
Judith Mart匤ez
Alicia V. Nuz
Miroslava Arely Rosales V疽quez
Manuel S疣chez Cabrera
Ignacio Sarmiento
Gracia Silva
Carolina Simba Gonz疝ez
Mar僘 Victoria V駘iz

Author Biography

Mauricio Espinoza is an assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American cultural studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Miroslava Arely Rosales V疽quez is a PhD student in literature at Bergische Universit舩 Wuppertal, Germany.

Ignacio Sarmiento is an assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American history at the State University of New York-Fredonia whose research focuses on postwar Central America and the Central American diaspora.