Remittances as Rents in a Guatemalan Town: Debt, Asylum, the U.S. Job Market, and Vulnerability to Human Trafficking

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Asylum seekers
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Psychological consequences of migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control

Geographies

• Scope

  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • El Salvador
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras