Rafael Alonso Hernández is a professor-researcher in the Department of Social Studies and coordinator of the PhD in Migration Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico. D. in Social Sciences from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (ciesas-West). Award for the best doctoral thesis. Arturo Warman Interinstitutional Chair, 2016. Member of the National System of Researchers, level ii. Member of the Board of Directors of Hospitalidad y Solidaridad, A.C., an organization that shelters and accompanies refugees in Chiapas. He was president of the Citizen Council of the National Institute of Migration from 2018 to 2021 and director of fm4 Paso Libre in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 2014 to 2018. During the period from 2014 to 2017, he was the national coordinator of the Documentation Network of Migrant Defense Organizations (redodem), a space that articulates 23 shelters for migrants and refugees throughout Mexico. Its areas of interest are international migration (migratory flows, international protection, migration policy, human rights).

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Migratory processes and shelter networks in Mexico

  • Rafael Alonso Hernández

In Mexico, irregular international migration processes have historically been accompanied by civil society organizations, which have directly assisted migrants and refugees in their transit or stay in the different states of the country and have also generated political and social advocacy processes to guarantee access to human rights. This proposal offers an analysis and reflection on the changes in migration dynamics in Mexico, focusing particularly on the emergence of humanitarian spaces for the care of migrants and refugees, and their articulation in networks and collectives, to become key actors of hospitality and solidarity for migrant populations in the country. To this end, we analyze information generated from our own participation in humanitarian activism, with the support of desk research on this topic.