Latin America – Forced Migration, An Open Challenge
Within the framework of the context analysis organized by the Network of Social Centers of CPAL, on April 21, the Jesuit Network with Migrants shared a Latin American perspective with some of the main tendencies identified in the region. The context analysis that the Jesuit Network with Migrants (RJM) constantly carries out served as the basis for the proposed conversation.
Javier Cortegoso Lobato, coordinator of the RJM LAC, highlighted 7 headlines in which he wanted to encompass this broad view that addressed issues such as the Growing Migration; Causes and Causers: the violence that causes the flight; Migration Policies as Death Policies; Dismantling of the Asylum System; the loss of opportunity to grow together in authentic spaces of integration; etc. Below we share his presentation
In the closing of the presentation he offered synthetically the Latin American and Caribbean characteristics of the situation of forced migration:
- That we are in a migratory context of constant changes,
- That the flows have become globalized, both intra-regionally and with a greater presence of extra-continental flows;
- That the increase in the migratory flow is given in at least three terms: volume, diversity and multidirectionality of the flows;
- That the multicausality that causes them makes it difficult to monitor and categorize them;
- That greater processes of second and third migrations have been generated as a consequence of the same causes, social rejection or worsening conditions for integration;
- That restrictive migration policies have been imposed based on containment, detention, militarization and deportation and that cooperation between states is focused on strengthening such restrictive policies and practices;
- That despite the increase in the grounds for international protection and the right to asylum, we see a setback and a collapse in the systems and recognition of the category of refuge;
- That there is a proliferation of undesired destinations and buffer spaces, we can affirm that there are doubly forced migrants, forced to flee and forced to reside in an undesired place;
- That organized crime is strengthening its migratory control as a tremendously lucrative business, and that this requires either no action (in the best of cases) or the complicity of public actors;
- That there is a terrible management of coexistence, feeding from the public and media powers a social climate of stigmatization and criminalization of the migrant that based on false information generates xenophobic responses;
- That the increase in vulnerability and risk is devastating;
- That there are new trends that at some point will grow exponentially, such as the climate shelter....
Source: CPAL
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