Social globalization, well‐being indicators and unaccompanied child migration from Central America
| Published date | 01 December 2022 |
| Author | Lucia D. Farriss |
| Date | 01 December 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12975 |
International Migration. 2022;60:185–197.
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INTRODUCTION
Unaccompanied A lien Children (UAC) ap prehensions at th e United States sout hern border have b een steadily
increasing since f iscal year 2012. B y fiscal year 2014, the su rge shifted from p redominantly Me xican children
to children from t hree Central American coun tries, commonly referred to as t he Northern Triangle: El Salvado r,
Guatemala and H onduras. The maj ority of appreh ensions are of young ad ult males, where f emales account for
Received: 29 Sep tember 2021
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Accepted: 11 Januar y 2022
DOI: 10 .1111/imig .12975
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Social globalization, well- being indicators and
unaccompanied child migration from Central
America
Lucia D. Farriss
© 2022 The Auth ors. Internation al Migration © 2022 IO M
The Universi ty of Southern Mis sissippi,
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
Correspondence
Lucia D. Farriss , The University of S outhern
Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA.
Email: Lfarriss@outlook.com
Abstract
This research invest igates the effec t of well- being indicators
and social globaliza tion on the migration of Unaccomp anied
Alien Children (UAC) from Central America. The purpose
of this study is to determ ine whether the surge in UAC
that began in 2014 at the U.S. sou thern border is drive n
primarily by violen ce or whether other fac tors are at play.
The apprehension of UAC ser ves as a proxy for measu r-
ing unaccompanied chil d migration to the United St ates.
Unemployment rate s of young adults and expe cted years
of schooling are includ ed as a measure of youth engage -
ment in productive activities, while homicide rates meas-
ure the threat to leadi ng a productive, hea lthy life. Global
social network lin ks are considered as possible pull fac tors
of migration and measur ed through a social glob alization
index. The result s of a fixed effect s regression model re -
veal that youth idlenes s, along with increase d social glo-
balization, prove to be sign ificant in explainin g heightened
UAC migrat ion.
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