REGIONAL BRIEF

Trends on Forced Human Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean

JRS in its mission to accompany, serve and defend; and with the aim of guiding the identification of political, humanitarian and welcoming actions much closer to the realities of communities and territorial contexts, documents some of the main trends in the context of forced human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Emerging trends to understand the context:

  1. Migration crises in Latin America and The Caribbean are almost forgotten in the global agenda.
  2. The vulnerability of forced migrants is increasing, with the current exacerbation in structural violence, armed conflict, gender-based violence, and drug trafficking-related violence.  
  3. The impacts of the global climate crisis are generating mass displacement in the region.
  4. Restrictive migration policies are thriving in the region and tend to securitization.
  5. The weakening of the states, loss of credibility, and a poor ability to respond to migration crises created by forced migration.
  6. New realities, diversification, and profile plurality: who are the people migrating today? 
  7.  The growth of an individualistic culture, lower participation rates in common causes, and the rise in xenophobic expressions and discrimination in the region’s countries.
  8. Hospitality and reconciliation expressions from different host communities towards forced migrants as a bet for local integration.

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