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Alianza Americas is committed to a human rights agenda for all people, with an emphasis on the inclusion and support of Latin American immigrant communities, and people on the move in Latin America.
OUR ISSUE AREAS
OUR ISSUE AREAS
Rights to mobility
Humanitarian protection
Alianza Americas is part of a network of regional organizations that work for the protection of vulnerable groups such as asylum seekers and refugees. In the United States, we are part of We Are All America, a national campaign for refugee justice established by a powerful coalition of organizations committed to the protection and integration of refugees. In Mexico, we support shelters and institutions that provide humanitarian and legal assistance to migrants and asylum seekers through the Refuge for Families campaign, a collective effort with the National Partnership for New Americans, Fair Immigration Reform Movement, and We Are All America.
Central American Exodus
Very quickly after the exodus of Central Americans began moving through Mexico in caravans, Alianza Americas realized that this new migration pattern required a careful, coordinated response. Our team launched a series of working exchanges with organizations in Mexico that are offering shelter, legal assistance, and psychosocial support to migrants and asylum seekers. We also teamed up with partners at National Partnership for New Americans, the Fair Immigration Reform Movement and We Are All America to create a multi-layered humanitarian, organizing, legal and communications effort called #RefugeforFamilies. Together with #RefugeforFamilies, Hispanic Federation, and many individual donors, we mobilized urgently-needed resources for shelters and organized against the administration’s efforts to deny Caravan participants their right to apply for asylum.
TPS
As a response to the cancellation of most of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) programs, we activated a nation-wide community organizing strategy led by our organizational members, including our “House to House” – Casa por Casa – campaign in key cities across the U.S. This organizing and mobilization led by Alianza Americas and member organizations allowed us and allies across several states to engage hundreds of TPS holders in telling their own stories to policymakers and advocate for permanent solutions and immediate steps to protect TPS holders.
International Advocacy
Alianza Americas promotes human rights in international governance of migration.
Alianza Americas fought to make the voices and perspectives of migrants from Latin America visible in the negotiations towards the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Regular, and Orderly Migration. We are members of the Global Coalition on Migration and the Civil Society Action Committee on the Global Compact, as well as the Peoples Global Action on Migration, Human Rights and Development, and the Women in Migration Network.
Alianza Americas continues to provide guidance on the Global Compact and other discussions on global migration by collecting input from migrant-led groups and partners and sharing these ideas through a series of virtual workshops and seminars shared with members and allies.
We also form part of the Regional Network of Civil Organizations for Migration (RROCM), a regional advocacy space that includes 11 countries in the region formed by Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
New Narratives on Migration and Mobility
Somos
Alianza Americas’ SOMOS/WE ARE initiative engages communities—especially youth—in building a new narrative around migration and challenging ongoing economic inequality, xenophobia and racism. Via workshops organized with Alianza Americas member organizations across the country, we raise awareness and identify action steps to tackle the roots of oppression against communities of color, immigrants, Muslims, women, and the LGBTQ community.
Alianza Americas confronts xenophobia and racism by constructing new narratives around human mobility that enable migrants to tell their own stories in their own voices.
Challenging Structural Inequality
Bring the power of organized immigrant communities to bear on a transnational justice agenda, recognizing that structural racism, gender, ethnic and other forms of discrimination, as well as economic and environmental injustice have a negative impact on all communities in the United States and Latin America. We advocate for policies that will enable people to live and thrive in their countries of birth, or wherever they choose to live.The ultimate goal is to create the social and political conditions that result in humane treatment for all, regardless of who we are or where we live.
Building Effective and Inclusive Democracy
Alianza Americas seeks to transform our understanding of citizenship and to make sure that organized migrant communities have a seat at the table in local, national, regional and global migration governance.
In 2018, Alianza increased its advocacy work in the region by adding representation in Mexico and Central America. This is part of a long-term effort to build cross-border networks that can make progress on issues such as labor justice, human rights and social and environmental justice, taking advantage of the vision and transnational commitment of immigrant-led organizations.
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