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Humanitarian Action is at the core of UNICEF’s mandate to realize the rights of every child. This edition of Humanitarian Action for Children – UNICEF’s annual humanitarian fundraising appeal – describes the ongoing crises affecting children on the move and COVID-19 in Mexico and Central America (including unaccompanied and separated children); the strategies that UNICEF is using to respond to these situations; and the donor support that is essential in this response.
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’…
En este informe de la Infancia en peligro se evalúan las causas estructurales de las migraciones irregulares procedentes del norte de Centroamérica y México, y se analizan las distintas dificultades y peligros a los que se enfrentan los niños migrantes y refugiados y sus familias durante los arduos procesos de migración y retorno. Además, con el fin de subrayar soluciones viables que puedan proteger la vida y el bienestar de los niños desarraigados, en el informe se han empleado datos probados y entrevistas con algunos de esos niños y sus familias (además de organizaciones no gubernamentales…
This series of videos highlights Save the Children's work in Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico to protect migrant and returnee children. The videos feature the voices of families who have been separated at the US border with Mexico upon entry into the United States, among others, and depicts some of the work that Save the Children is doing to promote and protect the rights of families in Central America before, during, and after migration - including through family strengthening efforts that allow families to stay together, psychosocial support in detention centers, family…
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An emerging literature explores the experiences of Central American unaccompanied youth en route to the US border and a growing number of studies examine what happens once they arrive. However, we know less about their pre-migration context or the effectiveness of in-country youth development programs thought to deter them from migrating. We address this gap by drawing on survey data gathered from young people in El Salvador who participate in Youth Outreach Centers (n = 445). These Centers are local community-based entities that provide youth services in precarious neighborhoods…
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The number of youth who migrate alone to the United States is growing at an alarming rate, with the highest number of minors arriving in 2016 in the past decade. Unaccompanied minors (UMs) are separate from the refugee process and continue to arrive, despite the government’s allocation of refugees into the United States. The majority of youth crosses the border from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, and many experience physical, sexual, and emotional abuse during migration. Knowledge on the traumas that this hidden, although expanding, group of youth experience, as well as…
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…
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The summer of 2014 saw an unprecedented increase in the number of children from Central America immigrating into the USA. This paper examines these events by setting the context of immigration across the USA–Mexico border, reviewing the extent and causes of the influx in immigration, and detailing the political, legal, and social work responses to the child migrants. This article contributes implications for rights-based practice with child migrants.
Esta evaluación rápida busca cubrir la escasez de información sobre las políticas y los servicios de las entidades gubernamentales y no gubernamentales encargadas de la protección de los derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes migrantes retornados a sus sociedades de origen en los países del Triángulo del Norte y México, con un foco en las acciones tendientes a restituir el derecho a la convivencia familiar y la integración comunitaria. En particular, se busca identi- ficar las deficiencias operativas e institucionales y los factores económicos, sociales y culturales que generan una…
This report is aimed at synthesizing key concepts and standards regarding the protection of the rights of migrant children and adolescents in the Northern Triangle of Central America. This document outlines the main guidelines that have emerged from pieces of international legislation. Also, it proposes a group of basic guidelines that should guide both the formulation and implementation of public policies and the concrete work which takes place in institutions responsible for guaranteeing the protection of migrant children. It is hoped that this publication will result in the development of…