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Roundtable Co-Chair in RT 3.2 "Beyond Remittances: leveraging the development impact and promoting the transnational engagement of diaspora and migrants"
Government Team Member in Rt 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development" and RT 3.1 "Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration"
Children are at the heart of human development. Migration can place unaccompanied children and adolescents in highly vulnerable situations. In order to better protect migrant children, Mexico has set up a specialized "Corps of Child Protection Officers" and developed a training module for migration officials dealing with child rights protection:
The Western Hemisphere Regional Migration Program (WHP) is a U.S. government-supported program that has operated since 2011. The State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration provides funding as a contribution to IOM to implement the program.
This joint project seeks to improve migrant workers and refugees’ access to decent work and sustainable livelihoods by ensuring their employability, and access to employment opportunities and social protection programs implemented in Mexico City and Santiago. To that end, the project will design and support interventions that strengthen and articulate city services in both cities to provide an adequate response to populations on the move who are facing increased vulnerability. It will seek to create public-private synergies by engaging social actors and strengthening social dialogue.
As of January 2019, the Government of Mexico launched the Migrant Caravan Attention Plan, in which all federal agencies participate, under the direction of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection and the Ministry of the Interior, especially the INM and under the coordination of the National Coordination of Civil Protection (CNPC). The Plan, that has been implemented since the beginning of the new government, establishes interinstitutional actions to ensure a humanitarian approach to the arrival of migrants and to regulate their entry so that it is legal, orderly and safe.
Mexico has developed a series of protocols and documents to guarantee the rights of people in mobility contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially related to the right to health.
These instruments are the following:
In the context of return migration, Mexico also started to certify labour competencies, such as knowledge, abilities and skills, of Mexican returnees to facilitate their socio-economic reintegration.
EUDiF supported an action in Mexico that facilitated the transfer of knowledge between Mexico and Europe with diaspora academics as catalysts to co-develop a toolkit for citizen education on climate change and circular economy.
RGMX-UK, the main beneficiary of the action, is the UK chapter of the Mexican Talent Network, and was created in 2010 by members of the Mexican diaspora living in the UK and with close links to academia.
The State of Tlaxcala commits to ensure effective access to the right to identify for individuals born abroad through the elimination of the requirement to present an apostilled foreign birth certificate in order to obtain dual nationality.
The flagship project to build the capacities of local governments in Mexico City and Santiago to strengthen the socioeconomic integration of migrants and refugees through access to decent work, sustainable livelihoods and social dialogue.
The Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers (INFONAVIT) offers compatriots who live in the United States, who have a home in Mexico with Infonavit credit or wish to pay the Infonavit home loan of a family member or a third party , being able to make payments or amortizations directly in a safe and fast way through a branch of the remittance companies: Dolex, Maxi Transfer or Express Exchange. Infonavit pays the commissions for sending the money to Mexico.