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December 10, 2015
Contact: Michelle Mittelstadt
202-266-1910
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More Deportee Reception and Reintegration Efforts Required in Central America
to Stop Migration Revolving Door, Report Finds
Findings Discussed in Webinar Today at 1:30 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — Over the past five years, hundreds of thousands of Central
American migrants—a significant number of them children—have been deported from
Mexico and the United States back to the Northern Triangle countries of El
Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. While these countries have created reception
programs for most deported migrants and reintegration initiatives that reach
far more limited numbers, a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report finds
that much more needs to be done to end the revolving-door cycle of migration,
deportation and re-migration.
With deported migrants often returning in worse circumstances than when they
left, facing crippling debt to smugglers and deteriorating conditions in their
home communities, it is not uncommon for them to turn around and try again.
A new report from MPI’s Regional Migration Study Group, Stopping the Revolving
Door: Reception and Reintegration Services for Central American Deportees,
provides a detailed portrait of the reception and reintegration services that
exist in the Northern Triangle, including their sponsors, budgets and
beneficiaries.
The report, which sketches the successes and challenges of such programs,
notes that while their relevance is unquestioned, knowledge of their
effectiveness is quite limited and evaluation and monitoring are scant. And
while short-term reception services have been expanded in recent years,
long-term reintegration services remain unavailable for the majority of
deportees.
“Without substantial financial support by international donors, opportunities
to reach more deportees and provide an alternative to re-migration are slim,’’
write authors Victoria Rietig and Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas. “Improving
reception and reintegration programs will take time, the consistent dedication
of financial resources and political will.” The authors—who will discuss their
findings in a webinar today—highlight the long-term effects that these services
can have on the countries of the region, noting that the economic opportunities
they create “may help convert future regional migration into a genuine choice
rather than a matter of sheer economic survival.”
Read the report at:
www.migrationpolicy.org/research/stopping-revolving-door-reception-and-reintegration-services-central-american-deportees
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