During spring 2022, the Innovating Protection for Children on the Move Across the Americas forum brought a child-focused and solutions-oriented lens to the dynamic landscape of migration between countries of origin and return, the U.S.-Mexico border, and within receiving communities across the United States.
Convened by Georgetown University’s Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues, Institute for the Study of International Migration, and Georgetown Americas Institute, in coordination with strategic partners, the forum included a series of webinars and blog posts that centered the perspectives of young people who have experienced migration and stakeholders working along the migratory route in various capacities and sectors.
All webinars and blog posts are available in English and Spanish below. / Todos los seminarios web y las entradas del blog están disponibles en inglés y español a continuación.
The three-part Innovating Protection for Children on the Move Across the Americas series brought a child-focused and solutions-oriented lens to the topic of migration, and included blog contributions from community leaders, policy analysts, non-profit workers, scholars, researchers, and more.
The number of young people fleeing high levels of violence, crime, natural disasters, food insecurity, and poverty and crossing the U.S.-Mexico border reached a 20-year high in the U.S. government’s fiscal year 2021 (October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021). This included a record number of children…
April 20, 2022
The number of young people fleeing high levels of violence, crime, natural disasters, food insecurity and poverty and crossing the U.S.-Mexico border reached a 20-year high in the U.S. government’s fiscal year 2021 (October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021). This included a record number of children who…
Joanne Seelig, Artistic Director of Education and Theatre for Change, Imagination Stage | April 25, 2022
Identity, Theatre for Change | April 24, 2022
April 4, 2022
Children and families continue to travel between South and Central America, Mexico, and the United States in record numbers. Many experience abuse, exploitation, detention, deprivation, and discrimination along their migration journeys.
International law underscores that all children have a right to…
Pablo Aurelio Loredo Oyervidez, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for the Americas, International Detention Coalition; Karen Valladares, Executive Director, National Forum for Migration in Honduras; María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, El Salvador | April 20, 2022
Identity, Theatre for Change | April 20, 2022
"How did we manage to get here? We improvised. The safety we found—we created it ourselves." This is how a 16-year-old boy from Honduras summarized his journey across northern Central America and into the United States. "Now that I am here, I am still improvising.”
Hundreds of thousands of children…
