Strategy on Prevention and Assistance to Unaccompanied Repatriated Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents

Community Leaders

Regional Seminar on Integration Policies for Immigrants, Refugees, and Returned Migrants

Lic. María Cecilia Landerreche Gómez MorinNational System for Comprehensive Family Development

San José, Costa Rica, Feb. 22-23, 2012

Contents• Legal Framework• Public Policy on Prevention and Assistance to

Unaccompanied Repatriated Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents

• Strategy in Places of Origin• Community Leader Project• Background and Objective of the

Community Leader Project• Community Leader Training Methodology

• Efforts Oriented Toward Strengthening

Prevention Actions

Legal Framework

Law on Refugees and

Complementary Protection

Social Assistance

Law

Convention on the

Rights of the Child

Immigration Law

Inter-institutional Dialogue Group

Three Areas of Public Policy

Northern Border: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and TamaulipasPlaces of Origin: Sinaloa, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Puebla, Michoacán, Tlaxcala, Mexico, and GuerreroSouthern Border – Transit regions and places of origin –: Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas

Strategy in Places of Origin

Objectives

Achieving restoration of

universal rights

Developing an sense of belongingAvoiding

migration through

prevention and assistance

Strategy in Places of Origin

How?• Personalized follow-up on unaccompanied

repatriated boys, girls, and adolescents in their own communities.

• Strengthening and establishing Child Protection Centres in key states of origin where Comprehensive Family Development (DIF) institutional services are provided.

• Community Leaders

The Community Leader Project

Background and Objectives

Líderes Comunitarios (Community Leaders) promotes the direct participation of repatriated

migrant boys, girls, and adolescents – or who are at risk of migrating – to implement strategies enabling

them to become rooted in their communities.

Community Leader Training Methodology

Education for peace and human rights

Rights of the Child

Participation of children

Strategies

A safe summer at home

Education scholarships, family and transportation grants

Workshops: Migrant boys and girls travelling alone. Responding, a moral emergency.

Community Leaders

“Let us lay the groundwork for a homeland that is more and more orderly and generous, so that one

day our people do not need to migrate for economic reasons”.

Lic. Margarita Zavala