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Central American Migration: A Framework for Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Nora Hamilton and
Norma Stoltz Chinchilla
Nora Hamilton
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Norma Stoltz Chinchilla
Affiliation:
California State University, Long Beach
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The subject of Central American migration encompasses a broad range of experiences that challenge traditional approaches to migration studies. Past interpretations of migration have tended to be based on mutually exclusive typologies or to focus on certain dimensions of migration while excluding others. Thus migration could be internal or international, cyclical, temporary, or permanent, voluntary or involuntary, economically or politically motivated (the latter issue often treated in a separate literature on refugees and exiles), motivated by “push” factors in the country of origin or “pull” factors in the receiving country, or the result of individual decisions or underlying structural conditions.

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , 1991, pp. 75 - 110
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Copyright © 1991 by the University of Texas Press

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The authors would like to thank the reviewers and editors of LAR for their very helpful comments and suggestions.

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