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Unprecedented in scope, Childhood and Migration in Central and North America: Causes, Policies, Practices and Challenges (Childhood, Migration, and Human Rights) is the result of a two-year regional investigation into the treatment of Honduran, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Mexican, and United States citizen and permanent resident children affected by migration. The book, available in its entirety below, examines the root causes of the forced migration of children and families in the Northern Central America–Mexico–United States corridor. It evaluates the policies, practices, and underlying conditions of countries of origin, transit, and destination; and examines their effects on children throughout the region, particularly with respect to the violation of children’s rights. The authors additionally analyze relevant regional and bilateral accords. The book concludes with extensive recommendations for governments, rooted in human rights.
The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at the University of California Hastings College of the Law (CGRS) and the Migration and Asylum Program, Center for Justice and Human Rights at the National University of Lanús, Argentina (CDHUNLa) directed Childhood, Migration, and Human Rights in partnership with civil society organizations from each of the five countries examined. Partner organizations authored individual chapters as reflected below. In addition, the Washington, D.C. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) contributed a chapter based on its 2014 report on child migration in the region.
Childhood, Migration, and Human Rights was produced with major support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, supplemented by support from the Ford Foundation.
See the full study - Childhood and Migration in Central and North America: Causes, Practices and Challenges.
See the press release from February 12, 2015.
For Spanish, click here.
Contents
Chapter 1: Children on the Run: Unaccompanied Children Leaving El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico and International Protection
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Children in the Context of Migration in Central America’s Northern Triangle
Chapter 2: Honduras
Casa Alianza
Chapter 3: Guatemala
Pastoral de la Movilidad Humana and Asociación Pop No’j
Chapter 4: El Salvador
Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas”
Chapter 5: Introduction to Chapters on Children in the Context of Migration in Mexico —Two Borders: One Childhood
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Matías de Córdova and Programa de Defensa e Incidencia Binacional
Chapter 6: Southern Mexico
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Matías de Córdova
Chapter 7: Northern Mexico
Programa de Defensa e Incidencia Binacional: Casas YMCA de Menores Migrantes andCoalición Pro-Defensa del Migrante, A.C.
Chapter 8: Introduction to Chapters on Children in the Context of Migration in the United States
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
University of California Hastings College of the Law
Chapter 9: Detention and Treatment of Unaccompanied Migrant Children at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Women’s Refugee Commission
Chapter 10: Immigration Remedies and Procedural Rights of Migrant Children and Adolescents
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
University of California Hastings College of the Law
Chapter 11: Family Separation as a Result of Immigration Policies in the United States
Women’s Refugee Commission
Chapter 12: Repatriation and Reintegration of Migrant Children
Kids in Need of Defense
Chapter 13: Childhood, Migration, and Human Rights in Regional and Bilateral Agreements in Central and North America
Migration and Asylum Program
Center for Justice and Human Rights
National University of Lanús, Argentina
