Mónica Salmón Gómez, Author at Public Seminar

Migration

Migrants Are Parents and Children

New York parents are using mutual aid networks to welcome migrant families

October 31, 2024 • by Mónica Salmón Gómez

Although New York can be a violent, unequal, and segregated city, radical acts of solidarity through mutual aid groups shape the experiences of those who live there and strive to transform it into a more livable place—especially for new arrivals. In the winter of 2023, just as the migrant shelter ...

A saga of dispossession, past and present

_____I met Francisco Chávez and Gaspar Cobo through a colleague and advocate for migrants’ and refugees’ human rights who works in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The two of them had fled Guatemala in June 2019. Travelling with a larger group of Central Americans going north, it took them twenty days to ...