Working for Guanajuatenses abroad

Guanajuato has an important network of consular centers of attention to migrants in the Guanajuato Homes in USA

CIDE (Center of Investigation and Economic Teaching A.C.) presented a diagnose on the migratory phenomenon from Guanajuato and its proposal to improve the public policies to help, unique in Mexico

Guanajuato/Gto News

Guanajuato has an important consular network of attention to its migrants in the Guanajuato Homes in the United States and its relationship with the local clubs in the United States, said Nuty Cardenas, profesor of the Center of Investigation and Economic Teaching A.C. (CIDE).

During her participation in the presentation of the virtual book: The Migratory Phenomenon in Guanajuato: Diagnose and Proposals of Public Policy, the also candidate to be a member of the National System of Investigators (CNI) said that the policies of attention to immigrants should be integral and respectful of the human rights of people.

Covering all kinds of needs

“It is important for us because each of these centers of immigrants should be considered within this integral migratory policy with its own problems and recommendations. But we also have found recommendations of public policies that are not specific for these groups, but they are in a different transverse axis”, said Nuty Cardenas.

On integral immigration Cardenas said that they work to control the factors of expulsion, more opportunities of education should be promoted for youngsters, as well as the inclusion of women in productive activities to avoid that more people wish to go away from their homes.

Cardenas said that the important network of relationship of Guanajuato with its diaspora should be strengthened and promoted.

The children

They should also promote the documentation of the children of Guanajuatenses who live abroad (from birth certificates to the INE card).

“We need precise data to be able to generate better policies, as well as a greater precision on the profile of the children of Mexicans, to achieve that we should have a sistematization of their birth certificates in their municipalities, since it is there that we find the main source of information”, said Cardenas.

Nuty Cardenas said that their conclusions are the result of 6 months of work that required the revision of documents and statistical sources in Mexico and in the US, interviews, surveys and field work.

A pioneer

Luis Garcia Barron, the General Director of the Institute of Attention and Protection to Immigranst in Durango and also the President of the National Coordination of State Offices of Attention to Immigrants (CONOFAM) said that Guanajuato is a pioneer in the investigation of the migratory phenomenon.

“This document is very important, this diagnose that has been presented today is a reason for enthusiasm for immigrants and all of us who work for their families. We are very glad and thankful for these initiatives that are so important and which come to complete and above all give certainty to the immigrants since we are no longer mere generators of money orders, but we become real subjects”, said Cardenas.

An example for others

Nuty Cardenas said that this report is and will be a spearhead for the 32 States in Mexico and they shall be a landmark in all and each of the places that are members of the CONOFAM as they look for alliances with institutions such as CIDE.

“CIDE has always been a great collaborator in this report that has been presented, it is historical because no other State in Mexico has this relationship with CIDE and this diagnose has been expected for so long, I have commented it with the Governor Diego Sinhue and we are all very enthusiastic in Guanajuato”, said Juan Hernandez, Secretary of Migrant and International Representative in Guanajuato.