Migrant caravans: from differentiated institutional responses to reorientation of migration policy

In 2018 and 2019, migrant caravans took place in order to reach the United States, a migration strategy adopted mainly by Centralamericans, characterized by greater visibility, lower cost and were organized through social networks. Three waves of caravans are identified, related to different institu...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Gandini, Luciana
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios (CSEM)
Repository:REMHU (Online)
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:remhu.csem.br:article/1420
Online Access:https://remhu.csem.org.br/index.php/remhu/article/view/1420
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:caravanas migrantes
política migratoria
migración forzada
migrant caravans
migration policy
forced migration
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Summary:In 2018 and 2019, migrant caravans took place in order to reach the United States, a migration strategy adopted mainly by Centralamericans, characterized by greater visibility, lower cost and were organized through social networks. Three waves of caravans are identified, related to different institutional measures and bureaucratic-administrative categories. The article exhibits the challenges of the governance of mixed flows that characterize contemporary migration in the region and, at the same time, the measures were erratic and contradictory, the prelude to a substantive turnaround experienced by Mexican migration policy.