The presentation examines key facts on migration to and from Latin America.

1. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
OF LATIN AMERICA
Few facts on Latin American migration in the 21st
century
Dr. Jacqueline LAGUARDIA MARTINEZ
Jacqueline.Laguardia-Martinez@sta.uwi.edu

2. Migrant caravans in Central America
• On October 2018, more than 1,000 people set off from Honduras with the intention of walking
to the United States. This caravan, estimated to comprise of 7,000 people, is probably the
largest ever recorded.
• These people are fleeing widespread violence (gangs), poverty and food insecurity.
• Their goal is to settle in the United States.
• For Central Americans, who typically depend on expensive and unreliable smugglers to travel
to the United States, caravans offer a cheaper, safer way to migrate. There is more solidarity in
going with groups. They don’t have the fear that they are going to be the victims of organized
crime.
• Caravans from Central America have inflamed the debate over U.S. immigration policy, with
President Trump using the migrants to try to secure backing for his plan to build a border wall
on the frontier with Mexico. President Trump labelled the migrant caravan as “an invasion”.
• On January 2019, a new caravan of almost 1,000 Central American migrants departed to the
United States.

3. Why the media paid attention this time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTX9JhAjM_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Er8Lq-kQaU

4. Migration in Latin America
https://www.dw.com/es/migraci%C3%B3n-en-am%C3%A9rica-latina-y-%C3%A1frica/a-19343400

5. http://tiempoyforma.com/chiapas/infografia/migracion-en-america-latina
Migration in Latin America (2018)

6. https://www.dw.com/es/migraci%C3%B3n-en-am%C3%A9rica-latina-y-%C3%A1frica/a-19343400

7. Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean(2017)
https://lanacionweb.com/internacional/remesas-a-latinoamerica-y-el-caribe/