Will the U.S. Gov’t Extend Protections for Nicaraguans?
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring viewpoints on the possibility of extending Temporary Protective Status to Nicaraguans in the United States.
Manuel Orozco
Nicaragua | Director, Migration, Remittances and Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue
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Manuel Orozco is the director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. He also serves as a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development and as a senior adviser with the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Orozco has conducted extensive research, policy analysis and advocacy on issues relating to global flows of remittances as well as migration and development worldwide. He is chair of Central America and the Caribbean at the US Foreign Service Institute and senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.
Orozco frequently testifies before Congress and has spoken before the United Nations. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Texas at Austin, a MA in public administration and Latin American studies, and a BA in international relations from the National University of Costa Rica.
Orozco has published widely on remittances, Latin America, globalization, democracy, migration, conflict in war torn societies, and minority politics. His books include International Norms and Mobilization for Democracy (2002), Remittances: Global Opportunities for International Person-to-Person Money Transfers (2005), América Latina y el Caribe: Desarrollo, migración y remesas (2012) and Migrant Remittances and Development in the Global Economy (2013).
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Sustained Remittance Growth in 2022
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Opportunities for Development in Guatemala: A study on the nostalgic trade
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The absence of the president [of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala respectively] signifies that they are not prepared to be held accountable as to why people are migrating.
La disminución de la influencia de Estados Unidos en América Latina es un subproducto de la polarización tóxica [tanto aquí como en el sur]. No hemos tenido el liderazgo para mostrar por qué la democracia es importante. La política y la democracia no se hablan.