Unaccompanied children and adolescents They try cross toward USAmainly, for reunite with their relatives and escape violence contextsthis is revealed by the study “Unaccompanied childhood: risks and violence on the migration route for Mexico”prepared by the organizations Save the Children, Plan International and the Ibero -American University.
According to the investigation carried out in the border cities of Juárez, Reynosa and Tijuana, different factors intervene such as the domestic, gender or community violence; inequality; And poverty.
“The main displacement reasons reveal a variety of factors that are intertwined and appears as a majority of family reunificationwe see that within that family reunification they also came contexts of violence“.
-He said Eugenia Morales, Researcher of the Human Rights Program of the Ibero -American University And author of the investigation, who added that not many of the minors began their journey accompanied.
However, this is even lost, they change ‘of hand in hand’ for different reasons along the way, such as Repatrices.
“The most common causes of family separation on the way include Deportations, Death of relatives, kidnappings, loss of contact with relativesfor example that they were waiting for them in another state. ”
