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Leave if you can : migration and violence in bordered worlds /

"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 b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frank-Vitale, Amelia (Author)
Other Authors: De León, Jason, 1977- (writer of forward)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2026]
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 62.
Subjects:
Deportation > United States.
Hondurans > United States > Social conditions.
Hondurans > Mexico > Social conditions.
Caravans > Central America.
Honduras > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Caravanes > Amérique centrale.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
Caravans
Deportation
Hondurans
Central America
Honduras
Mexico
United States
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Fronteras internas : a social geography of violence
  • Mañana me mandan, mañana me vengo : rerouting deportation through circulation
  • ¡Bienvenido a tu tierra! : problems of return, reintegration, and remigration
  • Alerta que camina : migrant caravans and transgressive mobility
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : deportation data.