Extracting Honduras
Resource Exploitation, Displacement, and Forced Migration
Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3033-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3033-9 (ISBN)
This book explores the deeper causes of recent massive emigrations from Honduras, tracing the roots to the neoliberal extractive development model that has created conditions of poverty, corruption, and violence for over a generation in the context of the colonial (or imperial) relationship of Honduras to the United States.
With a focus on Honduras, James J. Phillips explores the deeper causes of the massive emigration of Central Americans to the United States. Going beyond the frequently given reasons for migration, Phillips provides a detailed account of how the frenzied extraction of natural resources has created massive community displacement, dependency, poverty, and vulnerability, while encouraging corruption, violence, gang recruitment, drug trafficking, militarization of Honduran society, and systematic repression of popular protest and resistance.
Highlighting how this situation is tied to the colonial (or imperial) extractive relationship of Honduras to the United States, Phillips contends that the usual policy of development aid and investment to stem migration will only worsen the conditions that create migration. With this book, Phillips depicts how the Central American immigration “crisis” shapes life in the United States and Honduras, while making clear that the effects are not what populist politics imagine.
With a focus on Honduras, James J. Phillips explores the deeper causes of the massive emigration of Central Americans to the United States. Going beyond the frequently given reasons for migration, Phillips provides a detailed account of how the frenzied extraction of natural resources has created massive community displacement, dependency, poverty, and vulnerability, while encouraging corruption, violence, gang recruitment, drug trafficking, militarization of Honduran society, and systematic repression of popular protest and resistance.
Highlighting how this situation is tied to the colonial (or imperial) extractive relationship of Honduras to the United States, Phillips contends that the usual policy of development aid and investment to stem migration will only worsen the conditions that create migration. With this book, Phillips depicts how the Central American immigration “crisis” shapes life in the United States and Honduras, while making clear that the effects are not what populist politics imagine.
James Phillips is a retired professor of anthropology and international studies at Southern Oregon University.
Chapter 1: Mapping the Terrain
Chapter 2: Latin American Immigration and the United States
Chapter 3: Imperialism, Development, Honduras
Chapter 4: Migration, Development, and Honduras
Chapter 5: Evolution of the Honduran Political Economy
Chapter 6: Honduras: Characteristics and Consequences of Neoextractive Development
Mining
Chapter 7: The Militarization of Honduras, Emigration, and the United States
Chapter 8: Migration and the Human Spirit: Body and Soul in Honduras
Chapter 9: Reflecting on the Journey
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2021 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 161 x 228 mm |
Gewicht | 581 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-7936-3033-X / 179363033X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-3033-9 / 9781793630339 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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