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Nolan Publishes Article on Guatemalan Child Migration On November 13, 2020, Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an article with The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) on the history of Guatemalan child refugees and the crimes now underway in the United States migration system. This is the third article in series on child migration from the Infancias y Migración Working Group, an international interdisciplinary working group on child migration in the Americas–with participation from scholars in the U.S. and Latin America. In the article, titled “Guatemalan Child Refugees, Then and Now,” Nolan discusses the atrocities carried out during the Guatemalan civil war, the existential threat the war was for the country’s children, and the global response to this refugee crisis. Nolan details the policies toward refugees in of both Mexico and the U.S., the latter of which was much less friendly. As she details, the U.S. has in recent years expelled children from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador alone to Mexico, a country in which they have no family.
December 4, 2020 This is the fifth article in a series on child migration from the Infancias y Migración Working Group. New articles go up on Fridays. Para leer la versión en español, haz clic aquí. On February 13, 2018, local and national media reported an operation led by military and state security forces had managed to “locate” and “rescue” 301 migrants who had been kidnapped in the city of Matamoros, on Mexico’s northeastern border. Juan (not his real name) was one of the 229 people held in one of various safe houses while an organized crime group threatened and extorted his family members.