Chiapas, México
SINCE 1995
INTEGRAL DEFENSE
OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Decent work and
dignified life in
Soconusco
Empowerment migrant
people
Where?
Migration Stages in Soconusco
Latest 19th century: German,
Japanese, Chinese inmigrants.
80´s: internal conflicts in
Centroamérica. Forced displacement
90´s: “The Beast” and “Maras”
2005: Stan hurricane and new routs
2014 Southern Borden Program
New Refugees
MIGRATORY DYNAMICS IN MEXICO
 Asylum seekers
 Temporal Workers
 Forced displacement
 USA
 Internal/Services
 Indigenous
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Agriculture
Commerce
Domestic Work
Sexual Work
Origin
Transit
Destiny
Return
 Productive Projects
 Social and family
reintegration
DIFFERENT REALITIS MOVING
CHILDHOOD
WOMEN
LGBTTTI
INDIGENOUS
FOREIGN
YOUTH
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES OF
FRAY MATIAS HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER
Strategic defense
Migratory Regularization
Monitor Detention Center (DIF, S. XXI…)
Documentation (Migrant Children)
Organizational processes of Domestic
Workers
Network advocacy
Here I am…
Caring for others I go and turn back...
Keep looking ahead, breaking boundaries!
I step forward and then, turn back…
Main goal:
Promote the migrant women workers
organization in order to be able to
demand their rights.
In which place do we meet them?
WHO ARE THEY?
• Mainly indigenous from Guatemala (Racial work division)
• Age range: 14-35 years old
• Girls and adolescents who in holidays go to work to Tapachula in order to
continue studying in their original community.
• Girls and adolescents who go to work to Tapachula so they can help their
families, save for continue studying… They want to come back and live in
their community of origin.
• Young woman who are more open to new places to live. They want to
stablish, study and not necessarily work in care services.
Where they come from?
Chains of oppression
Ethnicity
Social Class
Gender
Age
Chains of care
Work Areas
Personal
empowerment
Support networks
Legal defense and
Advocacy
How do we do it?
On Sundays…
Skill development/ Self
Knowledge/care
Training in specific topics as gender
Expand means of expresión: teather
of the oppressed
Practicing Organization: Knowledge interchange
Community link
Social Cohesion
Special activities
Meetings with others workers
organizations
Health and Regularization
Links with natives communities
Challenges
Institutional:
To strengthem aliances
and include other labor
and migrant actors.
To sensitize and involve
the civil society
(employers)
Real justice access
Intercultural Labor
Policy
Agents of change back home
Coordinate with the first Domestic Workers
Union in Mexico (September 2015)
Impunity and corruption that prevails in Mexico
Guatemala blooms with the civil participation to stop
the corruption.
Thank you very much!!
www.cdhfraymatias.org