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.
In Central America, migration is forced and deportations are violent
It is important to emphasize that the “deportation” of migrants generates violence to the dignity and psychosocial structure of the person throughout the process, from the moment of capture, in the detention centers where minors and adults are kept, to the treatment when expelled from the destination country, all the way back to their home countries, where they are received with much the same kind of treatment…
Central America’s migration exodus
The context of migration before the Central American exodus caravans. Human mobility is one of the most visible consequences of the globalized world, the product of a neoliberal model in which the poorest seem to have no place.
African, Extracontinental and Afro-descent Migration in Latin America
New migration trends are emerging in Latin America. Migrants of African and extra-continental origin are increasingly visible, before and during the pandemic.
The Franciscan Network on Migration trains migrant houses and support teams on proposal writing and donor relations
The Franciscan Network for Migrants offered a workshop with the purpose of providing the local RFM teams with the information and tools necessary to apply for funding and administer grants
US Migration Policy Under Biden: Signs of Hope and Cause for Concern
As a candidate Biden promised, and seemed poised early on, to chart a new path toward a more people-centered reform agenda. As president he has taken many hopeful steps, but still leans on deterrence and criminalization to a degree that is concerning.
RFM participates in interactive dialogue with The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
This June 24, the Franciscan Network for Migrants, through its Advocacy Committee has collaborated with Franciscans International together with 30 other organizations have made a joint statement on the reality of migration in Mexico, Guatemala and the United States....
International Justice and Protection of The Rights of Migrants
With all of this and the fear that seized them, we traveled to Palenque where they had been captured by actors in organized crime, to file the complaint.
Honduras: Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Eta and Iota Shelters
The project is coordinated by RFM-Honduras team, supported and managed by the Coordination Committee of the Franciscan Network on Migration in coordination with the Faculty of Sciences Psychological the National Autonomous University of Honduras…
World Environment Day: The permanent challenge of caring for and defending our Common Home
Caring for and protecting our Common Home is an unavoidable responsibility. Pope Francis calls us to assume reciprocally and unequivocally this ecological commitment to be able to give a new meaning to our existence…
Mexico fails to comply with the recommendations of the Committee on the elimination of Racial Discrimination
We call on Mexico to implement the recommendations that various human rights mechanisms have made in the context of the protection of human rights of migrants, asylum seekers and human right defenders that work with them.