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Strategy on Prevention and Assistance to Unaccompanied Repatriated Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents
Community Leaders
Regional Seminar on Integration Policies for Immigrants, Refugees, and Returned Migrants
Lic. María Cecilia Landerreche Gómez MorinNational System for Comprehensive Family Development
San José, Costa Rica, Feb. 22-23, 2012
Contents• Legal Framework• Public Policy on Prevention and Assistance to
Unaccompanied Repatriated Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents
• Strategy in Places of Origin• Community Leader Project• Background and Objective of the
Community Leader Project• Community Leader Training Methodology
• Efforts Oriented Toward Strengthening
Prevention Actions
Legal Framework
Law on Refugees and Complementary
Protection
Social Assistance Law
Convention on the Rights of the
Child
Immigration Law
Inter-institutional Dialogue Group
Three Areas of Public Policy
Northern Border: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and TamaulipasPlaces of Origin: Sinaloa, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Puebla, Michoacán, Tlaxcala, Mexico, and GuerreroSouthern Border – Transit regions and places of origin –: Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas
Strategy in Places of Origin
Objectives
Achieving restoration of
universal rights
Developing an sense of
belongingAvoiding migration through
prevention and assistance
Strategy in Places of Origin
How?• Personalized follow-up on unaccompanied
repatriated boys, girls, and adolescents in their own communities.
• Strengthening and establishing Child Protection Centres in key states of origin where Comprehensive Family Development (DIF) institutional services are provided.
• Community Leaders
The Community Leader Project
Background and Objectives
Líderes Comunitarios (Community Leaders) promotes the direct participation of repatriated
migrant boys, girls, and adolescents – or who are at risk of migrating – to implement strategies enabling
them to become rooted in their communities.
Community Leader Training Methodology
Education for peace and human rights
Rights of the Child
Participation of children
Strategies
A safe summer at home
Education scholarships, family and transportation grants
Workshops: Migrant boys and girls travelling alone. Responding, a moral emergency.
Community Leaders
“Let us lay the groundwork for a homeland that is more and more orderly and generous, so that one
day our people do not need to migrate for economic reasons”.
Lic. Margarita Zavala