jessica xanthomila
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, February 15, 2023, p. 8
The face of migration in Latin America is changing, although it is mostly made up of men in search of better living conditions, it is also transitioning towards the flow of families and there is an increasing presence of the female sector, asserted the representative in Mexico of the United Nations Agency for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), Belén Sanz Luque.
When presenting the study Central American migration: factors of expulsion and attraction of the Guatemalan, Salvadoran and Honduran population from the perspective of gender, He pointed out that their migration has also been more visible due to the highly vulnerable conditions they face.
In their passage through Mexico, they have been violated in different ways, and although they and the migrant men suffer different forms of violence, we have been able to show in the study that the attacks against women seem more systematic and continuous
he pointed.
Sanz Luque added that the factors that have influenced the changing face of migration are both socioeconomic, political and environmental.
According to what was reported in the aforementioned study, prepared by the Global Center of Excellence in Gender Statistics, UN Women and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef), although most of the women and men of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala migrate for economic or labor reasons, they more frequently report having left their places of origin because of violence.
It is noted that although almost all suffer different violations of their human rights on the transit routes, they are the ones who suffer the most from inequalities and limitations to their rights due to being victims of gender violence.
