Does violence lead to flight from cities in the developing world? This paper estimates the
effect of violent crime in municipalities of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala on the …

What, if any, effect do physical barriers have on cross-border population movements? The
foundational claim that barriers reduce migration flows remains unsupported. We …

It has often been claimed that the violent gangs that haunt Central America today are rooted
in urban metropoles of the United States and have been exported to Central America …

This research highlights a neglected paradox of migration policies: whereas narratives on
migrants as a security threat in their countries of destination find little support in empirical …

Este artículo hace una revisión histórico-política de las acciones que han reforzado y
endurecido la frontera México-Estados Unidos, sobre la base del argumento de la …

Controlling immigration has become a central political goal in advanced democracies.
Politicians across the world have experimented with a range of policies such as foreign aid …

In the last two decades, forced removals have been the main feature of US migration policy
toward Latin America. In this research, we explore whether this policy has had implications …

What causes the demand for migration into the United States? We argue for, and
demonstrate the existence of, a vicious cycle of US immigration policy and migration …

Abstract Since 2006, the Great Recession and tighter migration policies in the US have
increased the rates of return migration to Mexico. Scholars debate whether high rates of …

Abstract This paper uses Secure Communities (SC), a policy which expanded local
immigration enforcement, to study how increased immigration enforcement in the US affects …