scholarly journals The Human Rights of Unaccompanied Minors in the USA from Central America

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Androff
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Central America ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
The Usa

Freedom Tide? Ideology, Politics, and the Origins of Democracy Promotion in U.S. Central America Policy, 1980–1984

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Democracy Promotion ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Dramatic Shift

The Reagan administration came to power in 1981 seeking to downplay Jimmy Carter's emphasis on human rights in U.S. policy toward Latin America. Yet, by 1985 the administration had come to justify its policies towards Central America in the very same terms. This article examines the dramatic shift that occurred in policymaking toward Central America during Ronald Reagan's first term. Synthesizing existing accounts while drawing on new and recently declassified material, the article looks beyond rhetoric to the political, intellectual, and bureaucratic dynamics that conditioned the emergence of a Reaganite human rights policy. The article shows that events in El Salvador suggested to administration officials—and to Reagan himself—that support for free elections could serve as a means of shoring up legitimacy for embattled allies abroad, while defending the administration against vociferous human rights criticism at home. In the case of Nicaragua, democracy promotion helped to eschew hard decisions between foreign policy objectives. The history of the Reagan Doctrine's contentious roots provides a complex lens through which to evaluate subsequent U.S. attempts to foster democracy overseas.

Adult Beliefs About the Migration Motives of Unaccompanied Honduran Youth

2021 ◽  
pp. 073998632110356
Author(s):  
Amy L. Clark ◽  
James L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Undocumented Migration ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
Dummy Variable ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Adult Beliefs

A number of researchers have examined undocumented migration from Central America. This literature lacks information about adult beliefs regarding the motivations of minors who journey from Central America unaccompanied and undocumented. Using data from a recent survey conducted in Honduras, we examine adult Hondurans’ beliefs about why unaccompanied minors leave the country unaccompanied. The dependent variable is a dummy variable that measures “why children leave the country.” Predictor variables are attitudes toward smuggling, willingness to leave without documentation, deportation experience, age, income, and residence in the northern part of Honduras. Using multinomial logistic regression, we find support for four of the eight hypotheses. Findings indicate that adults from the northern region are most likely to believe minors would leave for reasons associated with undocumented immigration. Those who are younger, with lower incomes, and with less access to sanitation are more likely to believe minors would leave without documentation.

Unaccompanied migrant youth in the Nordic countries

2019 ◽  
pp. 235-256
Author(s):  
Hilde Lidén
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Human Rights Standards

This chapter explores the ambiguities and changes in regulations concerning unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors within, as well across, the Nordic countries, with regard to the gap between restrictions, new policies and practices on one hand, and the human rights standards set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and in immigrant-related legislation on the other. The chapter focuses on Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The chapter draws on research combining studies on documents and legal analyses (human rights conventions, national laws, regulations and court cases); an analysis of quantitative data from immigration authorities to identify particular areas of concern; and qualitative research, including fieldwork and interviews with unaccompanied minors, staff in reception centres, legal guardians and immigration authorities. The chapter highlights the growth in the discourse and policy of stricter immigration regulations over the best interests of the child.

scholarly journals Triunfo y fracaso de ta alternativa revolucionaria en América Central: causas y consecuencias

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 159-184
Author(s):  
Artur Gruszczak
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Central America ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Central American ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
Militant Groups ◽  
Democratic Elections

Abstract/short description: The article relates the rise and fall of the revolutionary groups in Central America. Gruszczak states that behind the growth of revolutionary movements in the region, such as those in Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua and other Central American countries, were great abuses of civil and human rights. The author notes that the groups, which have been using revolutionary ways, or in other words armed struggle, to achieve their political goals, in 1990's changed their methods of action. Following democratization processes the left-wing militant groups have transformed themselves into political parties, working within the framework of democratic elections.

Human rights in the USA: land of the free?

The Lancet ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 352 (9143) ◽  
pp. 1853-1854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Freer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Usa

Abortion and Human Rights in Central America

Janus Head ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-43
Author(s):  
Gabriela Arguedas-Ramirez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Central America ◽  
Legal Abortion ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Political Dialogue ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
International Human

This essay aims to show that the nations of Central America must create access to safe and legal abortion as well as promote a political dialogue on the subject that is based on reason and science, rather than religion. Not only does prohibiting abortion constitute a violation of women's human rights, but, based on international human rights law as well as the minimum duties of civil ethics, failing in to provide such access or dialogue would mean failing to meet the standards of a legitimate democratic state.

Liberation Theology and the Central America Solidarity Movement

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-126
Author(s):  
Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Central American ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
School Of The Americas

This chapter examines the conditions that fostered liberation theology in Latin America. The chapter provides a brief overview of liberation theology’s central themes and how it fueled revolutionary movements in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It surveys the Catholic hierarchy’s responses, ranging from sympathy to condemnation, and highlights several US religious movements that expressed solidarity with Central American Catholics who were fighting for social justice. These organizations included Witness for Peace, which brought US Christians to the war zones of Nicaragua to deter combat attacks, and also Pledge of Resistance, which mobilized tens of thousands into action when US policy toward the region grew more bellicose. Finally, the chapter describes the School of the Americas Watch, which aimed to stop US training of Latin American militaries that were responsible for human rights atrocities.

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