Fleeing Central America's northern triangle: A silent humanitarian crisis

• Jean-François Véran ^[1] ; Renata Reis ^[2] ; Marc Bosch Bonacasa ^[3]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

     Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

     Brasil

     
  2. [2] Médicos Sin Fronteras Brazil
  3. [3] Médicos Sin Fronteras Spain

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• Localización: Migraçoes transnacionais, interculturalidades, politicas e comunicaçâo / coord. por Denise Cogo, Amparo Huertas Bailén; Mohammed Elhajji (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-84-120344-8-6, págs. 183-191
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Based in a victimization survey conducted by MSF in September 2015 among 467 refugees and migrants in the albergues along the migration route in Mexico, we argue that even if economicalperspectives are involved, most migrants are literally forced to flee to meet basic security “needs”.We also show that the migration process itself is a sequence of systematic and various exposures to violence working as a selection process leaving aside those for are “forced to stay”. Advocatingthat this dynamic constitutes a neglected humanitarian crisis, we put forward operational propositions to tackle its more urgent impacts.