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As part of the project ‘Humanitarian Response to the Protection Needs of Migrant Girls, Boys and Teenagers on the Northern Border of Mexico’, financed by the Basque Government’s Cooperation and Development Aid Fund (FOCAD) (August 2020 to November 2022), SC Spain alongside SC Mexico have developed a series of workshops. These workshops, based on the methodology ”Parenting with tenderness” (It is a tool to strengthen the bond between fathers, mothers and sons and daughters based on love and respect) and “Parenting on the Move”, are aimed at mothers, fathers and caregivers, with the goal of…
The primary purpose of this report is to recommend evidencebased strategies to improve the relevance and effectiveness of field interventions that target development outcomes for girls on the move in Central America and Mexico. This report consolidates findings from a rapid participatory consultation with: (1) migrant girls in the Southern Mexico border region, (2) front-line practitioners providing services to migrant children and their families, and (3) Save the Children teams in Mexico.
The aim of the research was to:
a) Elucidate how gender and gender norms impact girls’…
This essay calls on Governments in the Central American Northern Triangle (CANT) region "to increase the quality of their political systems ... to contain forced displacement and allow for the return of those who had fled." The article examines the extreme violence and organized crime in the region that is causing many families and individuals to flee and become displaced, as well as the widespread forcible recruitment into gangs in the region, "creating a burden for families with children who are at risk and are usually forced to pay the gang to avoid forced recruitment." The…
Human Rights Watch llevaba a cabo investigación en México y Honduras en 2015 para examinar cómo México está aplicando la ley nacional e internacional en el tratamiento de migrantes centroamericanos, particularmente los niños. Investigadores entrevistaban niños, niñas, y adultos migrantes y también representativos de la UNHCR y otras ONG en la región. Este reporte, basado en la investigación, presenta las discrepancias entre la ley mexicana y la manera en que está enforzada, incluyendo los obstáculos inmensos que impiden los migrantes, quienes puedan calificar, de pedir asilo o estátus…
Human Rights Watch conducted research throughout Mexico and Honduras in 2015 to examine how Mexico is applying national and international law in its treatment of Central American migrants, particularly children. Researchers interviewed migrant children and adults as well as representatives of UNHCR and other NGOs in the region. This report, based on Human Rights Watch’s research findings, highlights the discrepancies between Mexico’s law and the way it is enforced, including the obstacles in place which prevent migrants from securing asylum or refugee status. The report highlights these…
This report examines the policy challenge in the United States of balancing protection and immigration enforcement in the recent unaccompanied child migration “crisis” in the US. The report provides an overview of unaccompanied child migration from Central America and Mexico to the United States since 2011 and a look into enforcement and protection policies in practice, including “special rules for families and children.” The report also seeks to explain the recent surge in migration from Central America and highlights the limitations and “unintended consequences” of the US immigration policy…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
By the end of 2011, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began to see a steady rise in the number of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) from Central America, particularly from the Northern Triangle countries—El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala—arriving to the US-Mexico border. The number of children entering the United States from these countries more than doubled during fiscal year (FY) 2012 and continued to grow through FY 2014. In FY 2013, CBP apprehended over 35,000 children. That number almost doubled to 66,127 in FY 2014, with Central American…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
By the end of 2011, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began to see a steady rise in the number of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) from Central America, particularly from the Northern Triangle countries—El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala—arriving to the US-Mexico border. The number of children entering the United States from these countries more than doubled during fiscal year (FY) 2012 and continued to grow through FY 2014. In FY 2013, CBP apprehended over 35,000 children. That number almost doubled to 66,127 in FY 2014, with Central American…
In an effort to understand the situation of unaccompanied minors crossing the Unites States border and the exponential rise in the flight of children from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala which began in 2012, the International Rescue Committee has published this report from a field visit to Texas and Arizona. The report finds that messages from the Obama Administration and members of Congress has misled many to believe the situation to be a “border crisis” precipitated by “illegal immigration,” despite mounting evidence that the majority of the young children crossing the border might well…
This report from the Women’s Refugee Commission describes the recent increase in migration of unaccompanied children from Central America to the United States and provides an overview of the situation of these children, including the factors that motivate their migration - primarily the violence they experience in their home countries. According to the report, “until conditions for children in these countries change substantially, we expect this trend will be the new norm.” The report explores the US response to the influx of unaccompanied children and provides key recommendations for…