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The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants’ desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration. This volume claims that today it is almost impossible to speak of migration without also speaking of the migration industry. Ye...
Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs
This book explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico. It focuses on three vulnerable communities that have felt the impacts of this war firsthand: undocumented Central American migrants in transit to the United States, journalists who report on violence in highly dangerous regions, and the mourning relatives of victims of severe crimes, who take collective action by participating in human rights investigations and searching for their missing loved ones. Analyzing contemporary novels, journalistic chronicles, testimonial works, and documentaries, the book reveals the political potential of these communities’ vulnerability and victimization portrayed in these fictional and non-fictional representations. Violence against migrants, journalists, and activists reveals an array of human rights violations affecting the right to safe transit across borders, freedom of expression, the right to information, and the right to truth and justice.
Working Together
Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective action and the commons, and demonstrates the importance of cross-fertilization involving multimethod research across traditional boundaries. The authors look at why cross-fertilization is difficult to achieve, and they show ways to overcome these challenges through collaboration. The authors provide...
Forest Cover Change in Space and Time
This paper presents a framework for analyzing tropical deforestation and reforestation using the von Thunen model as its starting point: land is allocated to the use which yields the highest rent, and the rents of various land uses are determined by location. Forest cover change therefore becomes a question of changes in rent of forest versus non-forest use. While this is a simple and powerful starting point, more intriguing issues arise when this is applied to analyze real cases. An initial shift in the rent of one particular land use generates feedbacks which affect the rent of all land uses. For example, a new technology in extensive agriculture should make this land use more profitable a...
Guerra y posguerra en Centroamérica
Un grupo amplio de especialistas del Instituto Mora, de la Universidad de Quintana Roo y de la UNAM se reúnen en esta obra para analizar las continuidades y transformaciones de las sociedades centroamericanas, desde las guerras civiles que tuvieron lugar en la región en la década de 1980 hasta la actualidad. Los ejes temáticos son diversos: las formas de participación de distintos sectores sociales en las guerras civiles en Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua; la intervención de Argentina en el impulso a la contrainsurgencia en Hondura s; la presencia de México en la promoción de la paz regional; el papel de las expresiones literarias y musicales como formas de resistencia y visibiliz...
América Latina y el Caribe
La cooperación fronteriza debe ser parte de la columna vertebral de las acciones que fomenten la integración regional. Si no dejamos atrás la visión tradicional de las fronteras como espacios amenazantes, vulnerables y conflictivos, y promovemos firmemente la visión de las fronteras como espacios de encuentro que fomenten la integración regional y subnacional, esta tarea se vuelve muy dificil. La relación entre cooperación fronteriza e integración regional va en ambas direcciones. No sólo es necesaria la construcción de confianza y el trabajo complementario e integrado en las fronteras para lograr una integración regional más efectiva, también los mecanismos de integración reg...
