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Refugee women face gender-specific challenges in navigating daily life at every stage of their migration experience. [21] Common challenges for all refugee women, regardless of other demographic data, are access to healthcare and physical abuse and instances of discrimination, sexual violence, and human trafficking are the most common ones. [11]
This challenge is only compounded by the other obstacles immigrants are faced with, and has deleterious consequences for mental health, [15] particularly because many migrants and refugees are already susceptible to elevated levels of psychopathology, due to the trauma associated with interpersonal conflict, acculturative stress and/or ...
The risk of sexual assault and rape is so high for migrant women that smugglers, or coyotes, require them to get contraceptive injections before leaving their home country. [94] It is hard for researchers to get statistics on violence against migrant women because these women are unable to report their assault cases out of fear of being deported.
A group of women helps migrants with a simple humanitarian act, defying a crackdown on migration. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
The mother, who requested anonymity, is one of more than 700 victims of extreme violence to pass through Doctors Without Borders’ Comprehensive Care Center (CAI) in Mexico City and recount her ...
In 1923 the First Feminist Congress of the Pan American League of Women was held in Mexico and demanded a wide range of political rights. [81] That same year the Primer Congreso Nacional de Mujeres (First National Women's Congress) in Mexico City was held from which two factions emerged. The radicals, who were part of workers unions and ...
Before the pandemic, roughly 9 in 10 migrants crossing the border illegally came from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Those countries no longer hold the majority. There’s been a ...
From 1910 to 1920, the political violence and societal chaos caused by the Mexican Revolution also played a role in increasing migration northwards. [48] Mexico's working-age population faced a shortage of jobs and depressingly low earning which was due to Diaz Notices that continued to benefit hacendados at the expense of campesinos.