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From Central America to Venezuela: displaced people, forced migration and the geopolitical agenda of the United States

In: Handbook on Migration and Development

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  • Daniel Villafuerte Solís
  • María del Carmen García Aguilar

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This article seeks to analyse the causes of human mobility in the northern region of Central America, known as the Northern Triangle, and Venezuela. A distinction is made between the significance of migration in both cases, and a United States geopolitics that tolerates Central America while condemning Venezuela. It highlights the political use of migration to sanction this country, exhibiting the refugee as an expression of the tyranny of the Venezuelan government, while for the Northern Triangle it silences the existence of an extractive maquiladora economic model and concentration of wealth as a factor in the expulsion of population.

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  • Daniel Villafuerte Solís & María del Carmen García Aguilar, 2024. "From Central America to Venezuela: displaced people, forced migration and the geopolitical agenda of the United States," Chapters, in: Raúl Delgado Wise & Branka Likic-Brboric & Ronaldo Munck & Carl-Ulrik Schierup (ed.), Handbook on Migration and Development, chapter 12, pages 188-203, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19268_12
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