This essay, explores how the migration management paradigm has materialized in North and Central ... more This essay, explores how the migration management paradigm has materialized in North and Central America. It is argued that migration management is not about stopping migration, but rather about governing movements, people, and the permeability of borders. Thus, migration management emerges as a tool of social control for mobile populations. Furthermore, it tends to reframe the social inequalities that
lead to migration in terms of beneficial and unwanted flows, as well as to obscure or even reinforce regional power asymmetries between the North and Central American countries.
This essay, explores how the migration management paradigm has materialized in North and Central ... more This essay, explores how the migration management paradigm has materialized in North and Central America. It is argued that migration management is not about stopping migration, but rather about governing movements, people, and the permeability of borders. Thus, migration management emerges as a tool of social control for mobile populations. Furthermore, it tends to reframe the social inequalities that
lead to migration in terms of beneficial and unwanted flows, as well as to obscure or even reinforce regional power asymmetries between the North and Central American countries.
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lead to migration in terms of beneficial and unwanted flows, as well as to obscure or even reinforce regional power asymmetries between the North and Central American countries.
lead to migration in terms of beneficial and unwanted flows, as well as to obscure or even reinforce regional power asymmetries between the North and Central American countries.