Migrant caravans are organized groups that travel together — often on foot — to attempt to protect themselves from violence in the absence of safe migration routes. As a group they are more visible, which reduces some, but not all, risks. Publicly, they are often labelled a “logistical challenge” or just seen as a mass […]
Read More… from Mexico: Haitian migrants join caravans, facing waiting, barriers
The number of mental health consultations and new patients admitted to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Comprehensive Care Centre (Centro de Atención Integral or CAI, in Spanish) for survivors of extreme violence, based in Mexico City has increased significantly in the last six months. MSF attributes the increase to continued violence at the […]
“Since God was with me, I managed to escape,” says Mbala* from La Soledad, an informal migrant camp in the heart of Mexico City. Sitting with his back to one of the capital’s oldest churches, he recounts how only through occasional miracles has his family survived the journey from their home country in Central Africa to […]
Read More… from Crossing the world for a better life: Extracontinental migration in the Americas
The recent executive orders on migration from the U.S. administration leave hundreds of thousands of people along the Latin American migration corridor in even greater uncertainty, exposed to heightened risks on a route already marked by extreme violence, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Our teams in Mexico are already witnessing the harmful […]
Read More… from Mexico: Increased risks for migrants following closure of U.S. asylum process