Month: November 2020

This is the third article in series on child migration from the Infancias y Migración Working Group. New articles go up on Fridays. Para leer este artículo en español, haz clic aquí. The first wave of Guatemalan child refugees didn’t flee to the United States. They fled to Mexico. The trickle began a decade earlier, but the first mass exodus occurred between 1981 and 1982. Guatemalan children at refugee camps in Mexico wrote essays explaining their experiences. One fifth grader wrote in response to the prompt, “Why did the Army first come to your village?”: When they first came to the village, they were asking questions of people. Whether we knew any guerilla fighters. That was the only question they asked. The second time they came, they asked for papers. Whether we were citizens. So...

This is the third article in series on child migration from the Infancias y Migración Working Group. New articles go up on Fridays. Para leer este artículo en español, haz clic aquí. The first wave of Guatemalan child refugees didn’t flee to the United States. They fled to Mexico. The trickle began a decade earlier, but the first mass exodus occurred between 1981 and 1982. Guatemalan children at refugee camps in Mexico wrote essays explaining their experiences. One fifth grader wrote in response to the prompt, “Why did the Army first come to your village?”: When they first came to the village, they were asking questions of people. Whether we knew any guerilla fighters. That was the only question they asked. The second time they came, they asked for papers. Whether we were citizens. So...