Abstract: The 2021 MACLAS Arthur P Whitaker Award-winning book, The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security, is presented by the author at the 2022 conference of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) in New Jersey. Migrants fleeing economic hardship or violence are entitled to a range of protections and rights under domestic and international law, yet they are often denied such protections in practice. In an era of mass migration and restrictive responses for Central Americans fleeing to Mexico and the United States, Colombians seeking refuge in Ecuador, and Venezuelans displaced to Colombia, Peru, and elsewhere, migrant acceptance is often contingent on the expectation that they contribute economically to the host country while remaining politically and socially invisible. These unwritten expectations, which Jeffrey D. Pugh calls the “invisibility bargain,” produce a precarious status in which migrants’ visible differences or overt political demands on the state may be met with hostile backlash from the host society. In this context, governance networks of state and non-state actors form an institutional web that can provide indirect access to rights, resources, and protection, but simultaneously help migrants avoid negative backlash against visible political activism. Based on the findings in his book, Pugh discusses the implications of migration for the Latin American region at a time when governments have closed borders and increased restrictions. El libro ganador del Premio Arthur P. Whitaker de 2021, The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security, es presentado por el autor en la conferencia de 2022 del Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) en Nueva Jersey. Los migrantes que huyen de las dificultades económicas o de la violencia tienen derecho a una serie de protecciones y derechos en virtud del derecho nacional e internacional, sin embargo, a menudo se les niegan tales protecciones en la práctica. En una era de ...
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