Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds

Leave If You Can

By Amelia Frank-Vitale. Examines the consequences of U.S. border policies through the experiences of Honduran migrants. Offers a detailed portrait of the Honduran exodus and what it reveals about the broader consequences of changing US border enforcement policies. 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, challenges underlying assumptions frequently held by policy makers and humanitarian agencies. Connecting overlapping regimes of mobility control, 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 experiences accompanying migrant caravans over many years, the author also explores how caravans emerge as both protest movement and migration tactic in response to this expanding border regime. Read more.