人权和移民项目，危地马拉扎卡尔帕

Community-based Participatory Action 电子游戏正规平台 and Legal Advocacy, led by Professor M. 布林像是

中心过往项目(2008-2016)

移民和人权项目, 总部设在扎卡尔帕, 乳蛋饼, 危地马拉, 是当地扎卡阿兰人之间的合作项目吗, 危地马拉的电子游戏正规平台人员和宗教人士, 电子游戏软件的学生, 教师, 法律人员. 这个项目电子游戏正规平台的是社会, political and psychological factors contributing to migration among the local population, 在实际情况下向他们提供帮助. To these ends, the project conducted a range of activities including:

  • assisting local Zacualpans seeking to locate their family members that have migrated to the US; 
  • offering legal assistance from BC-based legal staff when applicable; 
  • offering support services and networking to family members “left behind” through a local staffed office; 
  • studying the demographics of migrating community members as well as the effects of migration on local families through community surveys; 
  • collaborating in participatory and 行动 research with local Zacualpans to better understand the social and psychological effects of on families separated transnationally by migration, and to better understand the push and pull factors of migration through interviews with local residents; and 
  • conducting participatory workshops to encourage the local residents, 尤其是青年, 参与到如何?,在那里?,为什么?, questions that emerge for them as their families and friends around them depart for distant lands. 

最后, the project worked with those who have returned – either voluntarily or through deportation – to explore varied uses of their social capital in developing local initiatives and creating more life options for those living in 危地马拉.

 

To read more about the project's findings and achievements:

Archived MHRP annual reports, available in English and Spanish.

The Zacualpa team produced two manuals stemming from their work with migrants and their families and youth in educational settings in 危地马拉:

In 2015-2016, the Center collaborated with the University of Rafael Landívar to facilitate a collaborative pilot project that sought to strengthen participatory and 行动 research (PAR) skills among students and 教师.  CHRIJ联合主任布林像是博士. Úrsula Roldan of the URL designed four workshops over a two-year period with three of the URL’s branch campuses in El 乳蛋饼, 失去天敌, 和Huehuetenango.  Teams of students and 教师 from each campus partnered with local communities to explore participants’ experiences at the interface of migration, territory and subjectivity (identity) through PAR processes.  The main objective of this collaborative effort was to contribute to the training of social actors (students, professors and others affected by this problem) on the issue of migration and the structural violence faced by families in the context of migration, 通过电子游戏正规平台, 教育及外展. Our decision to use PAR methods to achieve the general and specific objectives of the project was based on the prior experiences of the 电子游戏软件 team, who have used this approach in their work with communities in Chajul and Zacualpa.  The main idea was to form PAR teams with the local communities, 通过大学校园, and support them throughout the year by providing training, 学习, 行动, 和反射. PAR enables one to privilege the local communities’ knowledge while enhancing their capacities to analyze problems and develop 行动s to solve them. We hope to contribute not only to the strengthening of local university resources but also, 更重要的是, to the development of the migrants who participated in the research as essential actors in development at the local, 区域, and transnational levels and to strengthening the social networks that support them. 

The Center's in-country partners on the project have included INGEP (Instituto de Investigaciones y Gerencia Política) of the Universidad Rafael Landívar (Jesuit University in 危地马拉 City) as well as the diocesan Migration Committee in the 乳蛋饼 Department.  

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