LOCAL INTEGRATION PROJECT

In collaboration with UNHCR offices since 2018, we have been working on the implementation of a reception and follow-up project for refugees and asylum seekers who seek to settle and restart their lives in the state of Jalisco. We receive them, guide them upon arrival, accompany them in exercising their rights in the city, and provide follow-up during their integration process into the city.

As of the end of 2020, 1,166 people had been served. Their work documents have been managed, labor orientation workshops provided, linked to formal jobs, psychosocial orientation and care provided, referrals to health services, psychological and psychiatric care, educational services, technical training, and university studies.

Objectives:

Support refugees transferred from UNHCR offices in southern Mexico and those who arrive on their own to the city, to start a new life in Guadalajara, facilitating their access to the labor market and housing, as well as effective access to rights and public services such as education and health, among others.

Local Integration Assistant for Persons Subject to International Protection in Guadalajara

Samantha Guadalupe Santana Chávez
samanthasantana@fm4pasolibre.org

Tel: 33300306

Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from the University of the Valley of Mexico. In 2018, she joined FM4 as a volunteer and later as a shift supervisor. She has collaborated with the Francisco Febres Cordero LaSalle School, forming young people and children at the spiritual and human level, as well as carrying out projects with vulnerable communities and being a missionary on behalf of the same school. Her areas of interest are international migration and humanitarian aid.

Local Integration Assistant for Persons Subject to International Protection in Guadalajara

Sara Paulina Cruz Vargas
saracruz@fm4pasolibre.org

Tel: 33300306

Internationalist from the University of Guadalajara. Since 2018, she has collaborated in various areas of the organization, including the legal clinic. She also completed her professional internships at the Jalisco State Human Rights Commission and served in the Coordination of the work team of the Ibero-American Network for Monitoring the 2030 Agenda.

She is currently part of the Local Integration Program (PIL) in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (AMG). She is interested in the defense and promotion of human rights, peacebuilding, and gender studies.