Abstract: The history of Central America in the last three decades can not be understood without explaining what migration means for each country and for the region. This topic has relevance for the region, as a result of the number of people involved, and on the other hand, because of the social, economic, political, community or family impacts that it produces. Also, because the scales in which each impact is manifested: these can be regional, national, local and community.
Those who emigrate or those who leave their countries looking for refuge is people with faces, with stories, with truncated lives. Their experience shows that Central America is a region that keeps tearing itself apart and that it does not create a sense of belonging, each year thousands of people are expelled from this region.
In analytical terms, migrations in the region should make all of us that are investigating rethink in the first place, about the interpretative frameworks that we use to understand the factors that are causing these migrations in the region, as well the impacts and interdependencies which this reality is giving place. Secondly, to the future contexts that the region will face in migratory context because of the transformations that are observed and; thirdly, the relationship that migration dynamics have with other areas of the regional agenda. In this order of ideas, although it is necessary to know and understand in depth each national reality, it is also necessary to advance in regional analysis and in the comparison of binational experiences. |