1. Point of No Return: The Fear and Criminalization of Central American Refugees
- Author:
- CMS
- Publication Date:
- 06-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Center for Migration Studies of New York
- Abstract:
- The purpose of this study was to ascertain the challenges faced by Central American migrants who returned home after failing to gain asylum or other international protection in the United States or Mexico. Cristosal interviewed individuals who fled from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras under threats of violence and persecution and had been deported back to their country of origin to determine why they fled their homelands, why they could not secure asylum, and on their situations post-return. In the context of mass migration from these countries, the study used indepth interviews to understand the different ways in which people experienced the violence and fear that forced them to flee and how their responses upon “voluntary return” or deportation back to their country of origin were shaped by that same violence.
- Topic:
- International Cooperation and Migration
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus