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Irregular migration through Mexico rose 193% year-on-year in the first half of the year to a record of more than 712,000.
The Covid-19 pandemic and insecurity in some countries have changed the flow of migrants to Mexico, as more and more people are migrating with their families and there is more mobility from countries in North Africa and the Caribbean, said Fernanda González, representative of the FM4 Paso Libre organization, on Tuesday.
“In addition to the familiarization of migratory flows, we can see nationalities that were not so present before, such as Nicaraguans, Ecuadorians and Haitians, and we are also beginning to see others such as those from North Africa,” he said at the presentation of the Alliance for Human Mobility in Guadalajara.
He explained that the increase in violence and the presence of organized crime in Latin America has led to more families migrating.
“This mobilizes the entire family group, although it is not always the traditional family, but sometimes it is mothers or fathers who are carers and come with one or two children or even with the presence of the grandfather or grandmother, which means that the routes of care in the shelters are diversified,” she described.
Eight civil organizations have joined together in the Alliance for Human Mobility in Jalisco, the fourth entity with the highest migration rate in Mexico, to generate strategies to ensure basic rights to identity, health, education and work for people from other countries who decide to stay in Mexican territory.
Claudia Pineda, representative of the Casa del Migrante shelter, explained that the regularization of migrants depends on the circumstances in which they arrive in the country, although it is usually easier when they come in families.
He pointed out that, although obtaining official documents to live in the country makes the decision to stay easier, social integration is more complex due to factors such as bureaucracy, salary, discrimination or xenophobia.
“The process for a person to say ‘I’m staying here’ is quite long. There are people who do obtain the papers, achieve regularization, permanent residency, but then they can’t find rental properties. The process is long and requires many things,” he said.
The organizations will present this alliance to the state and municipal governments with proposals for training and modifications to strategies for assisting migrants.
Irregular migration through Mexico rose 193 percent year-on-year in the first half of the year to a record of more than 712,000, according to the government’s Migration Policy Unit .
