Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration

<p><em>The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration</em> offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region over the last 150 years spanning from the massive transoceanic migration of the 1870s to contemporary intraregional and transnational movements.</p><p>The volume introduces the migratory trajectories of Latin American populations as a complex web of transnational movements linking origin transit and receiving countries. It showcases the historical mobility dynamics of different national groups including Arab Asian African European and indigenous migration and their divergent international trajectories within existing migration systems in the Western Hemisphere including South America the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. The contributors explore some of the main causes for migration including wars economic dislocation social immobility environmental degradation repression and violence. Multiple case studies address critical contemporary topics such as the Venezuelan exodus Central American migrant caravans environmental migration indigenous and gender migration migrant religiosity transit and return migration urban labor markets internal displacement the nexus between organized crime and forced migration the role of social media and new communication technologies and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on movement. These essays provide a comprehensive map of the historical evolution of migration in Latin America and contribute to define future challenges in migration studies in the region.</p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars of Latin American and Migration Studies in the disciplines of history sociology political science anthropology and geography. </p>