Driven from Home: Taking Stock of Central American Migration

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This essay reviews the following works: From Strangers to Neighbors: Post-disaster Resettlement and Community Building in Honduras . By Ryan Alaniz. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 216. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477314098. The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America. By Noelle Kateri Brigden . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. Pp. 264. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781501730559. The Democracy Development Machine: Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism, and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala . By Nicholas Copeland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 282. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781501736063. The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup . By Dana Frank. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018. Pp. 344. $17.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781608469604. Caravana: Cómo el éxodo Centroamericano salió de la clandestinidad. By Alberto Pradilla . Mexico City: Penguin Random House, 2019. Paperback. Pp. 293. ISBN: 9786073180511. Sexto Estado de la Región 2021: Versión completa . San José, Costa Rica: Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE); Programa Estado de la Nación (PEN), 2021. PDF. Pp. 476. ISBN: 9789930607138. Datos electrónicos, https://estadonacion.or.cr/informe/?id=332ae9fc-d7c0-4886-a8cd-b67ea5f0ac38 . A House of One’s Own: The Moral Economy of Post-disaster Aid in El Salvador . By Alicia Sliwinski. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 264. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780773552920.