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International Migration as an Issue on Today's Inter-American Agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christopher Mitchell
Christopher Mitchell*
Affiliation:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University
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As a frequent concern both of governments and of the public at large in Western Hemisphere nations, international migration is now more prominent than at any time since 1980. The episodic flow of seaborne refugees from Haiti since 1991 has been a key factor in spurring the inter-American community to oppose Haiti's military rulers. The flotilla of rafts leaving Cuba since early August 1994 has engendered high-profile negotiations on migration between Washington and Havana. The stream of undocumented labor migrants from Mexico to the United States has regained momentum since the late 1980s and is encountering increased public criticism, especially in the western United States.

Underlying these instances of political tension is a strong, and only partially-met, demand for migration to the United States from parts of Latin America and the Caribbean on the one hand, and a growing anxiety in the US to “control the nation's borders” on the other.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 36 , Issue 3: Special Issue: The Summit of the Americas - Issues to Consider , Fall 1994 , pp. 93 - 110
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Copyright © University of Miami 1994

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