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Migrants and Their Right to Communicate

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"A workshop on migrants and their right to communicate was run by WACC-Latin America and supported by the Global Studies Programme of WACC this March. The event was held at Tecún Umán, Guatemala close to the Mexican border on a route used heavily by migrants, many of them without legal documentation, travelling from Latin America into the USA.


The event was hosted at the 'Casa del Migrante' a mission of the Scalabrini Fathers for migrants, and participants visited the border and witnessed people being deported. The stories of migrant rights activists and journalists covering migration issues were given prominence and participants, divided into groups, also spent several hours listening to migrants tell their stories. Four papers were presented...


The products of the seminar will be:

  • a one page 'decalogue' or style guide for journalists covering migration issues.
  • a pocket reference guide for migrants listing their rights and including an extensive list of migrant service centres throughout Mexico and the US supplemented by a web-based network with information available on the service centres.
  • the 'memoria' of the meeting".

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WACC's Action Bulletin 256, sent to The Communication Initiative on May 5 2004.