Migrants vs. family-fragmenting policy: A Mexican home community proposes solutions
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Migrants vs. family-fragmenting policy:
A Mexican home community proposes solutions
The Corner Project of Malinalco
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Early-stage migration• Tends to be circular• Jobs tend to be rural, seasonal, insecure• Scattered, multiple destinations• Destination support is very limited• Family stays home• Migrants’ goal: earn & return
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Early-stage migration: family and community
• Extended families provide support – Paying migration costs– Raising children
• Attempt to solve problems internally • Effects of migration not easily visible
outside families
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Examples of family-breaking policy:• Deportation of migrant members of mixed-status families
– Family members stressed during long waits in home community
– U.S.-born children’s bureaucratic limbo• Enforcement that pushes people into clandestinity makes
for lost connections • Less permeable border raises costs: children wait longer to
see parents• Opaque detention system
– Migrant relatives difficult to locate– Communications prohibitively expensive– Health and other problems difficult to address
• Visa restrictions impede family visits for key family events, illness, other needs
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Internet-facilitated communications
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Job-creation for migrants’ widows
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Locating missing migrant relatives
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Family reunification
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Family reunification
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Family reunification
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Programs for migrants’ children
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Community accounting
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Community accounting exchange
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Solution-generating methodology:• Make services available to families in home community
– Build home community-destination connections via internet
– Provide translation and technical support to aid cross-border linking
• Build links to include – local home community– Home country agencies– Destination country agencies– local destination community
• Facilitate crisis resolution with two-way communications• Remedy communication gaps• Strengthen security via community accounting methods
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Recommendations• Create apostille-support network for U.S.-born
children• Provide low-cost detainees’ communications with
family in home communities• Create network of home-region-based support
modules providing– Internet-facilitated low-cost communications– Volunteer-staffed English-language communications and
technical support