Description: In her monograph, Isabel Rosales Sandoval focuses on the factors that influence the implementation of the policies that sending states have adopted to reach out to their citizens abroad. Specifically, she investigates why and how sending states implement transnational emigrant policies.
Brief description: Isabel Rosales Sandoval studied Political Science in Guatemala and Hamburg. Since 2022, she is an Associate of the Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS) at the GIGA (German Institute of Global and Area Studies) in Hamburg, Germany. Previously, Rosales Sandoval held the position of Director of Master Studies at the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala. Rosales Sandoval is a member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Her previous book contributions include Human Security, Borders and Migration (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021) and The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration (Routledge 2013).
Review Quotes: This is a thought-provoking, insightful, and well-designed study, which will no doubt make a significant and original contribution to the knowledge in the field of migration and emigration policies in Central America and beyond.--Detlef Nolte, Professor of Political Science, University of Hamburg