Links to long-form information about U.S. border governance and migration
Published by WOLA on December 15, 2022.
A field research update, with embedded video, based on conversations with asylum-seeking migrants, many of them Venezuelan, stranded in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
Published by WOLA on October 19, 2022.
WOLA staff discuss the latest trends in migration to the United States and the consequences of the U.S. focus on reducing the number of migrants arriving at the border.
Published by the New Humanitarian on September 21, 2022.
The grim situation of migrants stuck in Mexico’s southern-border city of Tapachula.
Publicado por Efecto Cocuyo el 11 de septiembre de 2022.
Migrant women stranded in Mexico suffer untreated symptoms of psychological stress.
Published on July 25, 2022 by Cronkite News.
A report from Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, where stranded migrants face hunger, discrimination, and insecurity.
Published by Human Rights Watch on June 6, 2022.
A field report on abuses of migrant rights in Mexico’s southern-border city of Tapachula, focusing on the asylum-seeking migrant population stranded there.
Publicado por la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos, 3 de junio de 2022.
The Mexican government’s human rights ombusdman reports on the human rights aspects of attempts to form migrant caravans in 2021. (Link at cndh.org.mx)
Published by WOLA on June 2, 2022.
Report on a March 2022 research visit to Tapachula, near Mexico’s border with Guatemala, where large numbers of asylum-seeking migrants are stranded by U.S. and Mexican policies.
Published by WOLA on May 26, 2022. (Español)
A look at migration beyond the U.S.-Mexico border, examining recent trends in human mobility and the challenges migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are facing throughout the hemisphere
Publicado por la Fundación para la Justicia y otras organizaciones el 24 de mayo de 2022.
A multimedia microsite about the increasing use of military force to confront migration in Mexico, the United States, and elsewhere in the region.
Publicado por Contra Corriente el 16 de mayo de 2022.
Mexico is increasingly becoming the final destination for Central Americans fleeing misrule by increasingly authoritarian governments.
Publicado por BBC Mundo el 12 de mayo de 2022.
A detailed account of a Venezuelan woman’s journey across Mexico and to the United States with her young daughter.
Published by the New Humanitarian on May 10, 2022.
A multimedia presentation recounts the route that a Cuban asylum seeker took through Panama’s dangerous Darién Gap jungles, and on through Central America and Mexico.
Published by WOLA on April 5, 2022.
A brief report from fieldwork at the Texas-Mexico border finds that Title 42 has been a boon to the cartels that control much of daily life on the Mexican side of the border.
Published by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Haitian Bridge Alliance on March 29, 2022.
Documents examples of U.S. and Mexican personnel abusing and mistreating Haitian migrants during and after a large-scale September 2021 migration event in Del Rio, Texas.
Published by the Intercept on March 22, 2022.
CBP documents and situation reports reveal extreme steps the agency, along with Mexican authorities, took to block “migrant caravan” participants’ attempt to seek asylum in early 2019.
Published by WOLA on March 21, 2022.
A photo essay from a WOLA staff visit to the Texas-Mexico border, from Del Rio to Brownsville including four Mexican border cities.
Publicado por Chiapas Paralelo el 17 de marzo de 2022.
Profiles Honduran migrants who have decided to settle in the relative safety of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico after seeing their efforts to reach the United States blocked.
Published by Foreign Affairs on March 14, 2022.
Ana Raquel Minian of Stanford University contends that urging Mexico to serve as a bulwark against migration is a longstanding U.S. practice
Publicado por la Universidad Ibero el 31 de enero de 2022.
A memoir of a migrant caravan whose members walked from Tapachula to Mexico City in late 2021.
The Mexican government’s year-end 2021 count of apprehensions, deportations, and other data about migration. This publication is updated monthly; this is the year-end edition. (Link at politicamigratoria.gob.mx)
Published by WOLA on December 7, 2021.
A discussion with Mexico-based experts about the state of Mexico’s asylum system and its increasingly militarized migration enforcement.
Published by WOLA on November 23, 2021.
A brief English overview of an analysis at Mexico’s Brújula Ciudadana publication, proposing ways for Mexico to avoid remaining “complicit with the immigration policies of the US government.”
Published by WOLA on September 9, 2021.
A reaction to Mexican security and immigration forces’ harsh response to asylum-seeking migrants’ efforts to leave the country’s southern border zone.
Published by WOLA on April 15, 2021.
A discussion of Mexico’s crackdown on migration, its asylum system, and the role of U.S. policy.
