Transnational Movements (Central America)

Abstract

As social movements inspired adaptations and constructed alliances across borders, a growing literature emerged to analyze movement transnationalism and the processes that promote diffusion. Transnational activism escalated in tandem with economic globalization and the spread of new communication technologies in the twenty‐first century. This general pattern of transnational networking is evident in Central America, where US interventionism dating back to the early twentieth‐century and Cold War conflicts in the 1980s and 1990s repeatedly attracted international attention and outreach. Migratory flows catalyzed by military conflict escalated following the region's inconclusive peace, triggering further interest in international development promotion in the postwar era. Repeatedly situated in the eye of the hurricane, Central America became a hotspot for transnational activism.