Children in Transit: Results of Interviews with Central American Unaccompanied Minors Encountered in Mexico

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annita Khashu
Keyword(s):  
Central American ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
In Transit

Emotional geographies of irregular transmigrants’ journeys

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amalia Campos-Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Central American ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Migratory Process ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Migrants’ journeys involve geopolitical, corporeal, and emotional dimensions. Yet, emotions, which are fundamental to understand the migrant experience, are usually overlooked. Following the ‘emotional geographies’ approach, this article analyses the spatial contextualisation of the affective and emotional experiences of irregular migrants in transit. Cognitive mapping methodology is proposed as a means to address the spatial and subjective dimensions of migrants’ experiences. The ‘testimonial maps’ of two Central American transmigrants in Mexico are explored. The emotional geographies of irregular transmigration underscore the emotional turmoil associated with the irregular migratory process(es). They shed light to the familiar arrangements made before the journey, the natural landscape as part of the control, the encounters with agents of the state and criminal actors, the sanctuary places, the acquaintances and fortuitous friendships, the resilience and adaptability needed for endure the journey, and, beneath all this, the multi-emotional dimension of the journey: love, sorrow, shame, courage, anxiety, fear, trust, kindness, and hope.

scholarly journals Migración forzada y procesos de violencia: Los migrantes centroamericanos en su paso por México

2019 ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Guillermo Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Human Mobility ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Central American ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Central Americans ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
One Year ◽  
In Transit

Migration of Central Americans in transit through Mexico has decades of history, however, a few years ago has taken a notorious visibility. In this article, based on the review of multiple sources and especially in reports of non-governmental organizations, it is argued that the cross-border and irregular human mobility of Central Americans who passed through the shelters and houses of the Documentation Network of the Defending Organizations of Migrants (REDODEM) in 2015 can be analyzed from the category of forced migration. The use of this category allows: 1) Address the structural causes of migration; 2) investigate the transit processes of migrants in contexts of accentuated vulnerability; 3) account for the violence suffered by migrants and the lack of respect for their human rights (in Mexico). Through the review of various studies on the subject and especially reports on the situation of Central Americans in transit through Mexico of the Documentation Network of Migrant Defender Organizations (REDODEM), the forced migration of Central Americans for a specific period of time (2015) is reported, with an emphasis on three processes: 1) the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of Central American migrants; 2) the description of the type of crimes suffered by migrants and the spatial distribution of the places where this happens; 3) and finally a list of social actors and institutions that violated the rights of migrants. The temporal delimitation has to do with two processes: the crisis of unaccompanied Central American migrant minors (2014) and with the implementation of the Southern Border Plan one year earlier (2014). One of the contributions of the work is to realize that the processes of violence were not generalized and that they were concentrated especially in certain specific places. In addition, it realizes that these processes of violence were differentiated depending on the social actor or institution that committed the crime.

scholarly journals Truth or Dare: A Framework for Analyzing Credibility in Children Seeking Asylum

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Smeda
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central American ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
Credibility Assessment ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
Unaccompanied Children ◽  
The World ◽  
Article 5

Cornell International Law Journal: Vol. 50 : No. 2 , Article 5. U.S. border agents detained at least 52,000 unaccompanied minors from only four Central American countries—Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—in 2014, while 95,000 unaccompanied children sought asylum in Europe in 2015.Given the ongoing turmoil in various parts of the world, these numbers will likely rise. Children are narrowly escaping their native countries. With little help available from legal counsel and little time to gather supporting evidence, more children are relying on the gamble of a positive credibility assessment in an asylum application.The stakes are high—either a new life in the United States, or probable fatality at home if deported.The lives of all children should receive more security than the subjective judgment of the immigration official conducting the child’s credibility assessment. Current strategies used to increase the accuracy of credibility determinations are often misguided by outdated methodology. By implementing more robust, updated guidelines to increase the accuracy of credibility appraisals and ensuring that the recommendations are practiced with regularity, we can enhance the visibility of children facing persecution.

HIV Prevalence Among Central American Migrants in Transit Through Mexico to the USA, 2009–2013

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1482-1488 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Leyva-Flores ◽  
César Infante ◽  
Edson Servan-Mori ◽  
Frida Quintino-Pérez ◽  
Omar Silverman-Retana
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevalence ◽  
Central American ◽  
The Usa ◽  
In Transit

Making Absence Visible: The Caravan of Central American Mothers in Search of Disappeared Migrants

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 108-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Central American ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Peasant Women ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Maternal Activism

The touring model employed by the Caravan of Central American Mothers in search of disappeared migrants in transit through Mexico creates processes of political empowerment for poor, indigenous peasant women who have no previous experience as activists and human rights defenders. Interviews and participant observation with members and organizers of the ninth caravan (held in December 2013) reveal three key moments that anchor the mothers’ transformation into political subjects and human rights activists: the creation of a collective identity based on maternal activism, the forging of an alliance with transnational human rights networks, and the emergence of a budding politics of visibility based on public acts of grieving that candidly lament the vulnerability of migrants caught in the drug war and border securitization across the hemisphere. El modelo itinerante de la Caravana de Madres Centroamericanas en busca de migrantes desaparecidos en tránsito por México genera procesos de empoderamiento político de mujeres pobres, indígenas, campesinas y sin experiencia como activistas y defensoras de derechos humanos. Entrevistas y observación participante con integrantes y organizadores de la novena Caravana (diciembre 2013) identifican tres momentos claves para entender la transformación de las madres en sujetos políticos y luchadoras sociales por la defensa de los derechos migrantes: la conformación de una identidad colectiva basada en el activismo maternal, la alianza con redes transnacionales de promoción y defensa de los derechos humanos, y la emergencia de una política de la visibilidad a partir de acciones de duelo público en respuesta a la vulnerabilidad de los migrantes en el contexto de la narcoguerra y la política hemisférica de securitización de fronteras.

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