Latin America – FROM REALITIES BUT WITH HOPE Communiqué of the Continental Assembly of the RJM
On the last day of our 7-11 November 2022 Continental Assembly in Bogota, as is customary in the meetings of the Jesuit Network with Migrants, a proposal for a communiqué was presented and approved. It was worked on throughout the week, especially in the last few days, by a commission representing the network's three regions (CANA, SURAM and CARIBBEAN) and our continental dimension.
The communiqué gathers some moments of the Assembly, especially the main trends and challenges that we find in context, among them:
- The generalised breakdown of national asylum systems.
- The lack of realistic migration regularisation alternatives,
- The weakness of regional and international governance lacking a genuine human rights approach,
- The need to facilitate the incorporation of migrants' participation in local agendas.
- The necessary shift from an exclusionary narrative to one that integrates all that is positive about migration in our communities.
Faced with this reality and based on concrete action agreements established in the regions during the Assembly, the communiqué characterises our commitment as a network:
- Closeness and accompaniment of migrants in the most vulnerable situations.
- Promoting solidarity based on Hospitality and Reconciliation in the face of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and other forms of violence.
- Contributing through advocacy to constructing policies that favour the whole human family and our common home based on human rights.
- Promoting a critical and profound analysis of the realities that call us to action.
- And seeking the necessary alliances for a greater scope of common action in favour of justice and human rights.
The communiqué closes with a link to the Assembly's motto, recognising that, as Pope Francis urged on the last World Day of Migrants and Refugees, to build a future of hope, "no one must be excluded".
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