Pequeño Los Ángeles: Un lugar donde migrantes repatriados se reúnen y abren negocios
En Little LA, en los alrededores del Monumento a la Revolución, grupos de migrantes crean una comunidad para brindar apoyo y trabajo a personas deportadas.
Fernando Camacho Servín
Periódico La Jornada
Lunes 23 de julio de 2018, p. 16
http://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/07/23/politica/016n1pol
Cuando Israel Concha llevaba apenas unas horas en México, luego de haber vivido por más de 30 años en Estados Unidos, empezó a entender por qué sus padres decidieron ir a buscar una vida mejor al otro lado de la frontera: apenas había puesto los pies en la tierra de origen de su familia cuando ya había sido secuestrado.
Eso ocurrió hace ya más de cinco años. Sus captores lo "ubicaron" unos minutos después de que el gobierno estadunidense lo deportara a una ciudad fronteriza del norte del país, y pensaron –sólo ellos saben la razón– que se trataba de un agente de la DEA (Administración para el Control de Drogas, por sus siglas en inglés). En esas primeras horas de terror en México, Israel fue privado de la libertad, torturado y obligado a que su familia pagara un rescate por él.
Pero lejos de desanimarlo, ese terrible primer acercamiento con este país le dio las fuerzas suficientes para llegar a la capital, donde consiguió trabajo en los call centers que rodean el Monumento a la Revolución, como otros miles de jóvenes más que han sido expulsados de Estados Unidos, cuando ya habían hecho buena parte de su vida en aquel país.
Showing posts with label ODA Otros Dreams en Acción. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ODA Otros Dreams en Acción. Show all posts
Colectivo Otros Dreams en Acción dirigen misiva a AMLO
Deportados y retornados de EU piden inclusión; solicitaron a López Obrador resolver los vacíos institucionales que impiden su pleno reconocimiento como mexicanos.
De la Redacción
Periódico La Jornada, Domingo 22 de julio de 2018, p. 7
http://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/07/22/politica/007n1pol
Migrantes retornados y deportados de Estados Unidos, del colectivo Otros Dreams en Acción, dirigieron una carta abierta a la próxima administración federal, que encabezará Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), con peticiones que permitan el ejercicio pleno de sus derechos como ciudadanos mexicanos.
De la Redacción
Periódico La Jornada, Domingo 22 de julio de 2018, p. 7
http://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/07/22/politica/007n1pol
Migrantes retornados y deportados de Estados Unidos, del colectivo Otros Dreams en Acción, dirigieron una carta abierta a la próxima administración federal, que encabezará Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), con peticiones que permitan el ejercicio pleno de sus derechos como ciudadanos mexicanos.
ONG: atenta contra derechos y contradice a López Obrador creación de patrulla fronteriza
Emir Olivares Alonso, Periódico La Jornada, Jueves 12 de julio de 2018, p. 6
http://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/07/12/politica/006n2pol
La creación de una patrulla fronteriza en México atentaría contra el derecho a migrar e incrementaría las violaciones a las garantías fundamentales de las personas en tránsito irregular, sobre todo procedentes de Centroamérica, por nuestro país, advirtieron casi dos centenares de colectivos, organizaciones y grupos académicos de defensa de los indocumentados.
"¿Dónde están nuestros niños?", gritan activistas a la delegación estadunidense
Arturo Cano, Periódico La Jornada, Sábado 14 de julio de 2018, p. 4
http://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/07/14/politica/004n1pol
Quizá nadie lo dijo mejor que los jóvenes, hombres y mujeres, que regresaron por voluntad propia o fueron deportados y que hoy, en México, han construido un movimiento para que nadie olvide que están ahí y que el poder los ha ignorado.
Vinieron a la sede de la reunión entre Andrés Manuel López Obrador y Michael Pompeo, ambos acompañados de sus colaboradores, para decir cosas sencillas, para recordar a los gobiernos de ambos países quiénes son y de dónde vienen.
Una muchacha menudita era parte del grupo de los más gritones. La leyenda en su playera resumía una historia antigua, un dilema irresoluble que todos los políticos usan de bandera aunque nunca hayan podido hacer nada por ellos: "Ni de aquí ni de allá".
http://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/07/14/politica/004n1pol
Quizá nadie lo dijo mejor que los jóvenes, hombres y mujeres, que regresaron por voluntad propia o fueron deportados y que hoy, en México, han construido un movimiento para que nadie olvide que están ahí y que el poder los ha ignorado.
Vinieron a la sede de la reunión entre Andrés Manuel López Obrador y Michael Pompeo, ambos acompañados de sus colaboradores, para decir cosas sencillas, para recordar a los gobiernos de ambos países quiénes son y de dónde vienen.
Una muchacha menudita era parte del grupo de los más gritones. La leyenda en su playera resumía una historia antigua, un dilema irresoluble que todos los políticos usan de bandera aunque nunca hayan podido hacer nada por ellos: "Ni de aquí ni de allá".
ODA Otros Dreams en Acción
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Otros Dreams en Acción is significant in three important ways. First, ODA advocates for the claim to free mobility—as members of the United States national community from our current location, al otro lado, in towns and cities across Mexico. Second, ODA advocates for integration and transformation in Mexico. And last but not least, the members of ODA support each other, independent of what someone may have done in the past, the circumstances under which someone returned to Mexico, and the diversity of immigration status and mobility within our community.
Los Otros Dreamers
Anita Rao & Frank Stasio, North Carolina Public Radio, Mar 3, 2017
"Los Otros Dreamers" is a book documenting the experiences of individuals living in Mexico who spent a majority of their life in the United States.
Hundreds of thousands of individuals move to Mexico from the United States each year. This number includes both those who are deported and those who choose to return. Many of those individuals spent their formative years in the United States and experience distinct challenges upon return to Mexico, including extreme culture shock, depression and mental illness, and barriers to accessing employment and education in Mexico.
"We were living in the shadows. At some point I felt like I did not have any past and my future was pretty blurry"-Claudia Amaro
An anthology called “Los Otros Dreamers” (Jill Anderson & Nin Solis/2013) documents the stories of 26 individuals whose lives have crossed borders, cultures, languages, and nationalities. Host Frank Stasio discusses the book with co-author Jill Anderson and contributors Claudia Amaro and Maggie Loredo.
Listen the interview (19:35 min): Host Frank Stasio Jill Anderson, co-author of "Los Otros Dreamers", and story contributors Claudia Amaro and Maggie Loredo
https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wunc/audio/2017/03/sot030317segB.mp3
De aquí y de allá
Diana Delgado, máspormás, 23/05/2018
Poch@ House busca acompañar a mexicanos deportados de EUA, lo mismo con un espacio físico de reunión que con asesoría y mediante una comunidad virtual y, pronto, clases de inglés con justicia social.
En un departamento en el tercer piso de un edificio del Centro Histórico, en la calle de José María Marroquí, dos mujeres de mediana edad abren la puerta. El piso es de madera y las paredes blancas. Las cortinas son de tela y tienen mapamundis impresos. Al fondo, unas letras de unicel azul: “De aquí y de allá”.
Es Poch@ House, un espacio físico en el que se reúnen mexicanos deportados o retornados de Estados Unidos. Todos comparten, más o menos, la misma historia: pasaron su infancia y juventud en el país del norte y hoy son parte de un México que no los reconoce por completo.
Rossy es la coordinadora de Educación de Otros Dreams en Acción, asociación que trabaja con quienes regresaron a México en diferentes circunstancias. Surgió en 2014 tras la investigación posdoctoral de Jill Anderson sobre un grupo de jóvenes que hablaba inglés perfecto y se reunían en el Monumento a la Revolución.
“Ella estaba estudiando en la UNAM y se encuentra con estos chicos que tenían la fisonomía de un mexicano y que además hablaban perfectamente inglés. Se les acercó y se enteró de que habían vivido en EUA. Como parte de su investigación se publicó un libro llamado Los otros dreamers, con las historias de vida de 21 jóvenes”, explica.
El proyecto no se quedó en lo académico, y Jill se unió a Maggie, una de las jóvenes retornadas, para fundar la asociación que se constituyó en 2017. Un año después, consiguieron este espacio: la Poch@ House.
Poch@ House busca acompañar a mexicanos deportados de EUA, lo mismo con un espacio físico de reunión que con asesoría y mediante una comunidad virtual y, pronto, clases de inglés con justicia social.
En un departamento en el tercer piso de un edificio del Centro Histórico, en la calle de José María Marroquí, dos mujeres de mediana edad abren la puerta. El piso es de madera y las paredes blancas. Las cortinas son de tela y tienen mapamundis impresos. Al fondo, unas letras de unicel azul: “De aquí y de allá”.
Es Poch@ House, un espacio físico en el que se reúnen mexicanos deportados o retornados de Estados Unidos. Todos comparten, más o menos, la misma historia: pasaron su infancia y juventud en el país del norte y hoy son parte de un México que no los reconoce por completo.
Rossy es la coordinadora de Educación de Otros Dreams en Acción, asociación que trabaja con quienes regresaron a México en diferentes circunstancias. Surgió en 2014 tras la investigación posdoctoral de Jill Anderson sobre un grupo de jóvenes que hablaba inglés perfecto y se reunían en el Monumento a la Revolución.
“Ella estaba estudiando en la UNAM y se encuentra con estos chicos que tenían la fisonomía de un mexicano y que además hablaban perfectamente inglés. Se les acercó y se enteró de que habían vivido en EUA. Como parte de su investigación se publicó un libro llamado Los otros dreamers, con las historias de vida de 21 jóvenes”, explica.
El proyecto no se quedó en lo académico, y Jill se unió a Maggie, una de las jóvenes retornadas, para fundar la asociación que se constituyó en 2017. Un año después, consiguieron este espacio: la Poch@ House.
At Poch@ House, Mexican Deportees and Returnees Find Help Starting Over
Caitlin Donohue, Remezcla, March 2018
Maggie Loredo wishes that she didn’t have to rehash the painful details of her story every time a reporter comes to Poch@ House, the Mexico City center for deportees and returnees she co-directs. As she points out, the injustices of US and Mexican economic and legal systems cannot be reduced to a single face and a single story. But Loredo has also known the loneliness that can result from staying quiet, from thinking you are the only one who’s had their life ripped in two. “It could be because of the fear,” she ventures, reflecting on the silence surrounding life after leaving the United States. “Even the undocumented community never really asks what happens when their neighbor disappears.” So, she methodically answers the same questions over and over in the hope that her words will help others facing the same difficult decisions that she once did.
When Loredo was a high school sophomore in Georgia, she discovered she was undocumented. She’d arrived in the United States with her Mexican parents at the age of two. While she was a diligent high school student, her immigration status barred her from receiving financial aid to attend college, or from entering a professional certification program. “Why do I suddenly stop having rights at the age of 18?,” she asks, remembering the emotional rollercoaster of that moment and the years that followed. “I was angry at the country, but more at the government. They were basically closing the doors on me.”
Maggie Laredo, co-founder of Poch@ House. Photo by Daniel M. Torres for Remezcla.
Maggie Loredo wishes that she didn’t have to rehash the painful details of her story every time a reporter comes to Poch@ House, the Mexico City center for deportees and returnees she co-directs. As she points out, the injustices of US and Mexican economic and legal systems cannot be reduced to a single face and a single story. But Loredo has also known the loneliness that can result from staying quiet, from thinking you are the only one who’s had their life ripped in two. “It could be because of the fear,” she ventures, reflecting on the silence surrounding life after leaving the United States. “Even the undocumented community never really asks what happens when their neighbor disappears.” So, she methodically answers the same questions over and over in the hope that her words will help others facing the same difficult decisions that she once did.
When Loredo was a high school sophomore in Georgia, she discovered she was undocumented. She’d arrived in the United States with her Mexican parents at the age of two. While she was a diligent high school student, her immigration status barred her from receiving financial aid to attend college, or from entering a professional certification program. “Why do I suddenly stop having rights at the age of 18?,” she asks, remembering the emotional rollercoaster of that moment and the years that followed. “I was angry at the country, but more at the government. They were basically closing the doors on me.”
Maggie Laredo, co-founder of Poch@ House. Photo by Daniel M. Torres for Remezcla.
“Pocho House’’, un espacio para mexicanos repatriados
Gardenia Mendoza, MSN El Diario, 2/4/2018
MEXICO.- En la calle Ayuntamiento número 37, en el corazón del Centro Histórico de la capital mexicana un grupo de jóvenes repatriados tomó al toro por los cuernos y asumió que ya no está en Estados Unidos para ayudarse entre sí a integrarse otra vez a la sociedad mexicana y ayudar a otros en similares circunstancias. Así nació Pocho House’.
“Sabemos que el termino pocho se ha usado mucho de manera despectiva pero queremos reivindicarnos’’, ataja Rossy Antúnez, de 26 años, quien regresó a México hace nueve años, y hoy es parte del equipo.
Una década desde su retorno la convirtió en una veterana en el tema. Ya pasó por muchas etapas, la de estar sola sin la familia que se quedó en Wisconsin, la de que le echaran en cara el acento; la de extrañar, comparar a los dos países, enfrentarse a la revalidación de estudios y la burocracia que ataca con agudeza pidiendo papeles y papeles en su propio país.
MEXICO.- En la calle Ayuntamiento número 37, en el corazón del Centro Histórico de la capital mexicana un grupo de jóvenes repatriados tomó al toro por los cuernos y asumió que ya no está en Estados Unidos para ayudarse entre sí a integrarse otra vez a la sociedad mexicana y ayudar a otros en similares circunstancias. Así nació Pocho House’.
“Sabemos que el termino pocho se ha usado mucho de manera despectiva pero queremos reivindicarnos’’, ataja Rossy Antúnez, de 26 años, quien regresó a México hace nueve años, y hoy es parte del equipo.
Una década desde su retorno la convirtió en una veterana en el tema. Ya pasó por muchas etapas, la de estar sola sin la familia que se quedó en Wisconsin, la de que le echaran en cara el acento; la de extrañar, comparar a los dos países, enfrentarse a la revalidación de estudios y la burocracia que ataca con agudeza pidiendo papeles y papeles en su propio país.
Raised in America, now back in Mexico: 'The country I loved kicked me out'
Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian, Sep 6, 2017; last modified on Jul 5, 2018
Young Mexicans speak out about what they lost by leaving the US before Daca, what they gained, and what faces those who may now lose their protection
Three years after she went back to Mexico, a country she barely knew, Maggie Loredo learned that Barack Obama had created temporary deportation relief for undocumented migrants brought to the US as children.
“I immediately wanted to go to the border with all of my things and go back to the US,” she said.
But because she had left, she did not qualify for relief from the threat of deportation under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), the temporary program that the Trump administration now says it will end.
On Tuesday, attorney general Jeff Sessions said the program was introduced unlawfully and the US could not admit everyone who wanted to enter. The US, Sessions said, was enforcing law that “saves lives, protects communities and taxpayers, and prevents human suffering”.
The government was acting with compassion, he said.
Young Mexicans speak out about what they lost by leaving the US before Daca, what they gained, and what faces those who may now lose their protection
Three years after she went back to Mexico, a country she barely knew, Maggie Loredo learned that Barack Obama had created temporary deportation relief for undocumented migrants brought to the US as children.
“I immediately wanted to go to the border with all of my things and go back to the US,” she said.
But because she had left, she did not qualify for relief from the threat of deportation under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), the temporary program that the Trump administration now says it will end.
On Tuesday, attorney general Jeff Sessions said the program was introduced unlawfully and the US could not admit everyone who wanted to enter. The US, Sessions said, was enforcing law that “saves lives, protects communities and taxpayers, and prevents human suffering”.
The government was acting with compassion, he said.
No One Talks About Life After Deportation; These Mexican Activists Are Changing That
A network of migrant activists is helping deportees and returnees readjust to life in the country.
Laura Weiss, The Nation, April 28, 2017
https://www.thenation.com/article/no-one-talks-about-life-after-deportation-these-mexican-activists-are-changing-that/
On the night of November 8, 2016, 26-year-old Maggie Loredo, like millions of others, was messaging her friends with growing anxiety. “Watching the election… It just all fell apart,” she recalled two months after Donald Trump’s victory. But Loredo was watching the election results not from the United States, a country where she lived for most of her life, but from her hometown of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, where she had returned eight years before.
Loredo came to the United States as a toddler with her family and decided to move back to Mexico after graduating high school. Barred from receiving financial aid from public universities in her home state of Georgia and with no way to legally work in the United States, Loredo thought it would be easier to attend college in the country where she was born. But in San Luis Potosí, she found that the officials at the Secretaría de Educación Pública (Secretary of Public Education) were incompetent and unable to give her the appropriate guidance to validate her high-school diploma.
In the meantime, she says she became the victim of labor abuse in a job at an English school that exploited and stole from her. “There was no way I would get another job, because I didn’t have a college diploma or experience or a lot of recommendation letters,” she explains. She says it almost felt like being undocumented again, despite being a Mexican citizen. It would take five years of navigating the government bureaucracy before she would be able to start college.
Laura Weiss, The Nation, April 28, 2017
https://www.thenation.com/article/no-one-talks-about-life-after-deportation-these-mexican-activists-are-changing-that/
On the night of November 8, 2016, 26-year-old Maggie Loredo, like millions of others, was messaging her friends with growing anxiety. “Watching the election… It just all fell apart,” she recalled two months after Donald Trump’s victory. But Loredo was watching the election results not from the United States, a country where she lived for most of her life, but from her hometown of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, where she had returned eight years before.
Loredo came to the United States as a toddler with her family and decided to move back to Mexico after graduating high school. Barred from receiving financial aid from public universities in her home state of Georgia and with no way to legally work in the United States, Loredo thought it would be easier to attend college in the country where she was born. But in San Luis Potosí, she found that the officials at the Secretaría de Educación Pública (Secretary of Public Education) were incompetent and unable to give her the appropriate guidance to validate her high-school diploma.
In the meantime, she says she became the victim of labor abuse in a job at an English school that exploited and stole from her. “There was no way I would get another job, because I didn’t have a college diploma or experience or a lot of recommendation letters,” she explains. She says it almost felt like being undocumented again, despite being a Mexican citizen. It would take five years of navigating the government bureaucracy before she would be able to start college.
In Mexico, momentum grows to put out welcome mat for 'Dreamers' search for solutions
David Laconangelo, The Christan Science Monitor, February 24, 2017
Mexico estimates that some 40,000 young people who lived undocumented in the US may move back in the next several years. Many face enormous obstacles in trying to transfer educational credits that are crucial to establishing a foothold in Mexico.
Before Maggie Loredo left her home in Georgia’s Dalton County for her grandfather’s house in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, she called the office of the Mexican public education secretariat.
If I want to apply to a public university, she asked, but I grew up in the United States, which documents am I going to need?
Nothing but your transcripts and diploma, the attendant told her.
Mexico estimates that some 40,000 young people who lived undocumented in the US may move back in the next several years. Many face enormous obstacles in trying to transfer educational credits that are crucial to establishing a foothold in Mexico.
Before Maggie Loredo left her home in Georgia’s Dalton County for her grandfather’s house in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, she called the office of the Mexican public education secretariat.
If I want to apply to a public university, she asked, but I grew up in the United States, which documents am I going to need?
Nothing but your transcripts and diploma, the attendant told her.
Deported to Mexico: a lost generation
Nina Lakhani. The Guardian, Sun 17 May 2015
At least 500,000 young people, whose Mexican parents illegally crossed into the United States, have been forced back across the border, often knowing nothing of their new home. Nina Lakhani meets some of those they call the ‘dreamers’
For the children of undocumented Mexican migrants in the United States, life demands secrecy. They learn to navigate between the two cultures while hiding their illegal status – all the while praying for immigration reform. Their Mexican memories – if they remember at all – are replaced by American dreams. After a few years, they often feel, look and sound so American, they can forget that, in the eyes of the law, they are aliens.
But they are, and they can be arrested at any moment. At least 500,000 young adults who grew up in the US have been deported or have decided to return to Mexico in the past decade. For many it is akin to arriving in a foreign country for the second time, but this time they lack a child’s ability to acclimatise. For years, little was known about what happened to these youngsters, but a picture is now emerging of a well-educated, bilingual, bicultural group whose traumas and talents are being ignored. This is in part due to groups trying to raise awareness of their plight. One such network is Los Otros Dreamers – the Other Dreamers. The name is a reference to the young migrants who would benefit from the Dream Act, a US bill first introduced in 2001, but still not passed, which would have paved the way to citizenship for those brought to the US as children.
At least 500,000 young people, whose Mexican parents illegally crossed into the United States, have been forced back across the border, often knowing nothing of their new home. Nina Lakhani meets some of those they call the ‘dreamers’
For the children of undocumented Mexican migrants in the United States, life demands secrecy. They learn to navigate between the two cultures while hiding their illegal status – all the while praying for immigration reform. Their Mexican memories – if they remember at all – are replaced by American dreams. After a few years, they often feel, look and sound so American, they can forget that, in the eyes of the law, they are aliens.
But they are, and they can be arrested at any moment. At least 500,000 young adults who grew up in the US have been deported or have decided to return to Mexico in the past decade. For many it is akin to arriving in a foreign country for the second time, but this time they lack a child’s ability to acclimatise. For years, little was known about what happened to these youngsters, but a picture is now emerging of a well-educated, bilingual, bicultural group whose traumas and talents are being ignored. This is in part due to groups trying to raise awareness of their plight. One such network is Los Otros Dreamers – the Other Dreamers. The name is a reference to the young migrants who would benefit from the Dream Act, a US bill first introduced in 2001, but still not passed, which would have paved the way to citizenship for those brought to the US as children.
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