Researcher ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-7334-8222
Graduation Year
2002
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics and International Relations
Reader 1
Sumita Pahwa
Reader 2
Heather Williams
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Abstract
This paper explores the role of USAID-funded projects focused on the root causes of migration in the Northern Triangle as a U.S. immigration prevention strategy. Through analyzing the Empleando Futuros activity in Honduras and the Crime and Violence Prevention Project in El Salvador, I found that the projects followed an overly simplistic approach to migration based off of neoclassical economic theories of migration. When compared to alternate migration theories and empirical evidence from the region, I found that the individualistic and employment-based approaches utilized by these projects do not have the desired effect of majorly decreasing someone’s propensity to migrate and lessening migratory flows to the United States.
Recommended Citation
Munoz, Sofia M., "Analyzing the Success of the USAID-Funded Empleando Futuros and Crime and Violence Prevention Projects in Reducing Emigration from the Northern Triangle to the United States" (2002). Scripps Senior Theses. 1981.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1981
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