scholarly journals Environmental Explanations of Central American Migration: Challenges and Recommendations for the Development of Public Policies

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian ◽  
Diego Chaves-González
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-279
Author(s):  
Ilsup Ahn ◽  
Jaeyeon Lucy Chung

Abstract The purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, it investigates how the historical and structural injustice has to do with the Central American migration crisis in the U. S. Second, this paper explores immense yet largely unrecognized socio-psychological trauma that forcibly separated migrant families, especially children and their parents must endure. Lastly, this paper develops the concept of postcolonial hope as a practical theological response to the Central American migration crisis and the US biopolitical separation of migrant families. The authors argue that postcolonial hope is conceived as people’s resistance against the state’s anti-immigration biopolitics to reckon with the structural sins of dehumanization and terrorization.


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