Across the global south, regimes of labour and mobility control are reforming that attempt to manage the northern movement of people. By combining financing development projects with explicit forms of border enforcement (including border personnel training and new securitization technologies), western governments and southern elites attempt to encourage publics (invariably poorer people of colour) to stay in local regions, rather than seek better livelihoods elsewhere. By reference to the USAID funded Centros Quédate or Stay Here Centres in Guatemala, this paper explores the merging of development and migration governance regimes through the concept of “frontiering through development.” The paper argues that initiatives such as these fail t...
While migration is a positive and empowering experience for many, it is quite clear that forced migr...
Since El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war, the Salvadoran state has embraced a discourse and political...
Migration and remittances are increasingly central to development plans and the search for best prac...
For many indigenous communities in the western highlands of Guatemala, transnational migration is co...
Guatemalan emigration to the U.S. is largely motivated by domestic conditions including corruption, ...
This article addresses land recovery and access to new land for returning Guatemalan refugees as a w...
Developing countries emerging from conflict often feature enduring, destitute poverty amid often fas...
While the teloi of development seeks to explicitly link an ideology of ‘market fundamentalism’to one...
open access articleThe border between Mexico and Guatemala results from the geopolitical confluence ...
Processes of conflict and domination have historically influenced and continue to influence patterns...
From an anthropological perspective, this working paper explores the process through which, in recen...
In recent years, a growing proportion of migrants at the US southern border have come from Guatemala...
Returnee entrepreneurs are often represented in migration and development dis- courses as agents of ...
Moving beyond studies of social movements and NGOs, this dissertation examines how grassroots groups...
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the International Development Research Ce...
While migration is a positive and empowering experience for many, it is quite clear that forced migr...
Since El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war, the Salvadoran state has embraced a discourse and political...
Migration and remittances are increasingly central to development plans and the search for best prac...
For many indigenous communities in the western highlands of Guatemala, transnational migration is co...
Guatemalan emigration to the U.S. is largely motivated by domestic conditions including corruption, ...
This article addresses land recovery and access to new land for returning Guatemalan refugees as a w...
Developing countries emerging from conflict often feature enduring, destitute poverty amid often fas...
While the teloi of development seeks to explicitly link an ideology of ‘market fundamentalism’to one...
open access articleThe border between Mexico and Guatemala results from the geopolitical confluence ...
Processes of conflict and domination have historically influenced and continue to influence patterns...
From an anthropological perspective, this working paper explores the process through which, in recen...
In recent years, a growing proportion of migrants at the US southern border have come from Guatemala...
Returnee entrepreneurs are often represented in migration and development dis- courses as agents of ...
Moving beyond studies of social movements and NGOs, this dissertation examines how grassroots groups...
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the International Development Research Ce...
While migration is a positive and empowering experience for many, it is quite clear that forced migr...
Since El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war, the Salvadoran state has embraced a discourse and political...
Migration and remittances are increasingly central to development plans and the search for best prac...