What's Driving The Migration Crisis At Our Southern Border?

Authors

Susan M. Akram, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-8-2018

Publisher

Cognoscenti

Language

en-US

Abstract

While the daily news is full of stories about migrants being detained, families being separated and the consequences of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policies, relatively little reporting has focused on the reasons why thousands of Central Americans are fleeing their homes in the first place.

Recommended Citation

Susan M. Akram, What's Driving The Migration Crisis At Our Southern Border? , in Cognoscenti (2018).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/105

Publisher URL

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/08/08/why-do-migrants-flee-central-america-susan-akram