Marna y yo tuvimos la oportunidad de compartir nuestra presentación, “Análisis geográfico de las razones por migración entre niñas, niños y adolescentes” a varios actores en la casa de Naciones Unidas de Tegucigalpa el 21 de julio de 2017. Explicamos los resultados de la investigación sobre migración juvenil salvadoreña en el año de 2014 y la metodología del estudio comparativo que esperamos realizar sobre migración juvenil hondureña en el año de 2017.
Month: February 2020
Quoted in Bustle article by Nicole Einbinder on 6 July 2017
Einbinder, Nicole. 2017. This Woman Fled a Brutal Civil War, and She Knows Today’s Refugees Aren’t So Lucky. Bustle 6 July. <https://www.bustle.com/p/this-woman-fled-a-brutal-civil-war-she-knows-todays-refugees-arent-so-lucky-68239>.
“My experience is that most people want to stay in their homes. I’ve gotten a number of phone calls from people crying because they want to be back home and would be killed if they return,” Elizabeth Kennedy, a social scientist at San Diego State University who researches youth and forced migrants and their families from the region, tells Bustle. “If someone risks their life to make a dangerous journey, there is a fear based upon reality. So, when the courts deny their asylum application there should be knowledge that some of those people will be killed when they’re sent back.”
In 2014, and based on Kennedy’s research, she estimates that 83 people deported back to their home countries by the U.S. were ultimately murdered.
“We’re repeating history,” she explains to Bustle about today’s refugee crisis. “With low-income populations, it seems to be that war has been declared on those groups even though they have the least responsibility in the problem. I feel like those who most like Trump say, ‘don’t think about those consequences because they are outside our borders,’ and don’t realize it also affects us in the long-run.”
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On Trump’s pledge to build a border wall, Kennedy acknowledges such a wall does already exist. During President Obama’s tenure in office, deportations reached an all-time high, with over 400,000 peopledeported in 2012. But, they also declined in his last two years, and in 2014 he issued a memorandum to avoid deportations involving people with a status as victim or humanitarian factors like poor health or young children. “A wall is never sufficient to keep people out when you’re fleeing for your life,” Kennedy says. “Your only alternative is death so you’ll do whatever to survive.”
Citado en reportaje de Hoy por Soudi Jimenez el 24 de junio de 2017
Jiménez, Soudi. 2017. Mexicanos y centroamericanos entre los mas rechazados al pedir asilo en EEUU; ¿como pelear un caso? Hoy 24 June. <https://www.hoylosangeles.com/noticias/local/hoyla-loc-mexicanos-y-centroamericanos-entre-los-mas-rechazados-al-pedir-asilo-en-eeuu-como-pelear-un-caso-story.html
Citado en reportaje de Hoy por Soudi Jimenez el 19 de junio de 2017
Jiménez, Soudi. 2017. EEUU da trato desigual a los refugiados, cuando se reportan 65.6 millones de desplazados en el planeta. Hoy 19 June. <https://www.chicagotribune.com/hoyla-loc-eeuu-da-trato-desigual-a-los-refugiados-cuando-se-reportan-65-6-millones-de-desplazados-en-el-planet-story.html>.
En una entrevista reciente, Elizabeth Kennedy, investigadora de la Universidad Estatal de California en San Diego, aseguró a HOY que el problema de los mexicanos y centroamericanos es que menos del 15% de los que solicitan asilo no cuentan con representación legal.
A juicio de la experta en migración forzada, junto a un abogado es importante que el solicitante cuente con un experto como un académico, un investigador o un periodista que explique y verifique las condiciones del país de donde son oriundos los refugiados al acudir a una corte.
“Los centroamericanos y mexicanos tienen problemas al mostrar que su país de origen no puede protegerles”, señaló.
A eso se suma, dijo la investigadora, que debido a los antecedentes en su tierra natal al llegar a una corte muchos no quieren hablar; sin embargo, asevera que ese es el asesoramiento que un jurista o una organización defensora de los inmigrantes les puede brindar.
“Cuando un salvadoreño llega de una colonia controlada por una mara, eso significa que por toda su vida ha vivido en temor, ha aprendido a no decir todo lo que ha pasado; muchas veces no saben qué decir y tienen miedo de decirlo”, apuntó.
Virtual Presentation to Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area on 5 May 2017
On 5 May 2017, I presented on “Gang-Based Asylum Claims” to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more about them, go to this link: https://www.lccr.com .
Citado en reportaje de Hoy por Soudi Jimenez el 20 de marzo de 2017
Jiménez, Soudi. 2017. El retorno a casa: numerosas familias del sur de California regresan a México. Hoy 20 March. <https://www.hoylosangeles.com/noticias/local/hoyla-loc-las-mudanzas-de-mexicanos-rumbo-a-su-tierra-irrumpen-en-el-sur-de-california-story.html>.
La política estadounidense, plantea Elizabeth Kennedy, investigadora de la Universidad Estatal de California en San Diego, eleva el odio no solo contra los latinos, sino también contra los musulmanes, tratando de negar el aporte de los inmigrantes que han construido esta nación.
“Es un olvido de la historia”, aseguró la académica.
Kennedy, originaria de Texas, es doctora especializada en la Migración Forzada. En sus investigaciones ha corroborado que los inmigrantes llegan a este país huyendo de la violencia y pobreza. Al establecerse afirma que tienen dos y hasta tres empleos para sobrevivir.
El impacto, sin embargo, considera la investigadora que no solo se observará en la economía, porque los inmigrantes se llevan sus ideas creativas y también repercute en una pérdida cultural.
“Contrario de lo que dice el presidente en este momento, los migrantes cometen menos crímenes que los ciudadanos [estadounidenses] y normalmente protegen a sus comunidades; estamos perdiendo personas muy buenas”, añadió la especialista.
Virtual Presentation to the Vera Network Providers and CGRS on 16 March 2017
On 16 March 2017, I participated in “Working with Country Conditions Experts in Immigration Court: A Training for Asylum Attorneys” as part of a virtual presentation hosted by Vera Network Providers and Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS). You may learn more about CGRS in an earlier post. To learn more about Vera Institute of Justice, go to this link: https://www.vera.org/projects/legal-services-for-unaccompanied-children .
Interview with Radio Caracol on 23 February 2017
I spoke with Radio Caracol in Miami, Florida on 23 February 2017.
Presenting to the South Texas American Immigration Lawyers Association on 17 February 2017
After trips to Portland, Oregon, Honduras and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, I got to present “Children and Families in the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras” to the South Texas American Immigration Lawyers Association in Weslaco, Texas on 17 February 2017.
Presenting in Portland, Oregon in February 2017
At the beginning of February 2017, I headed to Portland, Oregon to present “Forthcoming Research on Salvadoran Children, Families and Adults” to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) chapter there and then the “Reality on the Ground: Contextualizing Claims. Presentation at Goal of the Vanguard: Building Successful Asylum Claims,” at Portland’s Center of Excellence.
To learn more about the American Immigration Lawyers Association, go to this link: https://www.aila.org .
To learn more about hosts, go to their links:
Innovation Law Lab, https://innovationlawlab.org
The Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, https://cgrs.uchastings.edu
The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, https://cliniclegal.org
Elizabeth G. Kennedy 