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Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds Volume 62
Hardcover
Series: California Public Anthropology
AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceImmigration & Refugees
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ISBN10: 0520421345
ISBN13: 9780520421349
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780520421349
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The consequences of U.S. border policies through the experiences of Honduran migrants. Hondurans have been at the heart of some of the most visible migration phenomena in the last few years, as well as the direct target of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy. In Leave If You Can, Amelia Frank-Vitale offers a detailed portrait of the Honduran exodus and what it reveals about the broader consequences of changing US border enforcement policies. She highlights the stories of those who are often presented as unsympathetic: deported young men implicitly associated with the very violence they are trying to flee. In the process, she challenges underlying assumptions frequently held by policy makers and humanitarian agencies. Connecting overlapping regimes of mobility control, from the invisible gangland borders within San Pedro Sula to the growing expansiveness of the U.S. border's reach, this book shows how deportation does not deter migration but, in fact, keeps people moving, and how U.S. policies fuel the migration crisis they claim to address. Drawing from her own experiences accompanying migrant caravans over many years, Frank-Vitale also explores how caravans emerge as both protest movement and migration tactic in response to this expanding border regime.
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