| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

María Cristina García. Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, The United States, and Canada. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 273. $19.95.

Marífia Cristina Garcífia's book eloquently explains the various factors that shaped the experience of over two million Central American refugees in Mexico, the United States, and Canada from 1970 to the 1990s. Blaming the Cold War for driving people out of their countries, Garcífia explains how government officials and pro-immigrant advocates in religious institutions and nonprofit organizations shaped responses to the Central American refugee crisis. According to Garcífia, government officials in North America conveniently politicized their initial responses to strengthen their own foreign or domestic agendas but left few venues for legalizing the status of Central American immigrants. As a response, activists mobilized national and transnational networks to establish refugee assistance programs, inject public debates with moral consciousness, and advocate humane immigration policies.

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