The American Dream’s Sojourn in Latin America: the dynamics of irregular and mixed migration...

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  • Título: The American Dream’s Sojourn in Latin America: the dynamics of irregular and mixed migration flows through Ecuador and Colombia = La suspensión del sueño americano en Latinoamerica: las dinámicas de los flujos migratorios irregulares y mixtos
  • Autor: Wagner, Ursula Bianca
  • Publicación original: 2011
  • Descripción física: PDF
  • Nota general:
    • Scholars generally agree that irregular migration is the direct consequence of the restrictionist and containment policies that have been used by states to keep immigrants outside their borders. This creates a dynamic that has three significant parts. First, restrictive border policies and practices drive refugees, asylum-seekers, and other migrants to resort to the use of irregular migration in order to reach their destinations.
      Second, the use of this type of migration, in particular the use of human smugglers, criminalizes and de-legitimizes refugees and asylum-seekers, and consequently third, this continues to legitimize states’ restrictionist practices. This dissertation argues that the dynamic described above is either 1) facilitated by media discourses and constructed to portray irregular migrants as a social and economic threat or 2) challenged by media discourses portraying irregular migrants as helpless victims. This dissertation explains the above-mentioned dynamics by examining the cases of Colombia and Ecuador and by providing a critical discourse analysis of written media in both countries.
  • Notas de reproducción original: Digitalización realizada por la Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República (Colombia)
  • Notas:
    • Colombia; Ecuador; Estados Unidos
    • Resumen: Discourse; Forced migration; Human smuggling; Irregular migration; Latinoamerica; Media; Migration; Refugees; Restrictionism
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    • Colfuturo
  • Forma/género: tesis
  • Idioma: inglés
  • Institución origen: Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República
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