News and Press Releases
Annual Report 2020
We are pleased to share with you our 2020 annual report. Thanks to the dedication of all those who participate in and support the Franciscan Network on Migration, we were able to accomplish much in 2020…
Labor: The Fallacy of the American Dream
The Covid-19 pandemic demonstarted that 74% of undocumented migrants in the United States were essential workers (Center for Migration Studies, 2020), workers who, for the most part, lack the minimum labor rights that any citizen or documented worker enjoys. These include the right to health care, the granting of work permits, and basic health and safely measures that prevent the spread of the coronavirus, among others…
JPIC-OFM launches the Franciscan Network on Migration.
The idea of the Franciscan Network on Migration emerged in April 2018 during the annual JPIC...
Earth Day Reflection on Ecological Debt and Human Mobility
As we acknowledge and commemorate Earth Day this week, we should be mindful of the new refugees who must seek higher ground – sometimes literally as sea levels rise, but also metaphorically as desert soil often cannot provide enough food and water to support human needs…
10th Anniversary of La 72 Migrant and Refugee Shelter
It should be noted that 10 years after its foundation, the Project for Attention to Migrants in Tenosique, Tabasco called La 72 Migrant and Refugee Shelter, Pies Descalzos A.C, the social gospel work of the Franciscan Province of San Felipe de Jesús in the Southeast of Mexico
Tearing Down the Walls
“Unlike refugees, migrants can return to their homes”
“Migrants that fled the effects of climate change did so not out of choice but out of the need to escape conditions that could not provide for even the most fundamental of their rights.”
Where we are?
Learn about our shelters and teams
Iniciatives
Understanding, building and growing the Network
Program Focus
Capacity-Building
Members of the Network are already providing a myriad of resources to migrants. Network members will be able to enhance each other’s work by sharing information and resources via different media (bulletins, meetings and gatherings, capacity-building seminars, resource and route maps, threat advisories, etc.) that they can then pass on to migrants in their care along the route.s.
Support and Protection
Members of the Network will foster the establishment of migrant centers, shelters and houses of refuge in areas where there is a lack of resources by connecting donors to new and ongoing programs.
Advocacy and Collaboration.
Fidelity to the Gospel message compels us to not only to recognize the face of Christ in the poor and the excluded, but also to engage in a social analysis to identify the processes of impoverishment and exclusion e.g. root causes, agents, victims, mechanisms and consequences.
