The conference is filled with terrific speakers and workshops. We’ve pulled together their tip sheets and Power Point presentations. Immigrant Children in Rural v. Urban Communities: Sociologist Joanna Dreby’s Power Point presentation Immigration Law 101: Dan Kowalski’s short list of...
Border militarization has propelled migrants into dangerous areas, creating a funnel effect, el efecto embudo. More than 6,000 migrants have perished — and fully a third in the Arizona-Sonora desert — since 1998. This project chronicles the correlation between the...
The project is a collection of visual stories about migrants and their journeys. Through maps, photos, audio and text, the stories explore various aspects of the migrant experience, of women, children, the means of transportation, who helps them and who...
Jobs in agriculture have drawn many immigrants and refugees to the Midwest, working as crop pickers and meat processors. But now some immigrants – particularly the younger generation — are taking more decision-making roles in farming. View the proyect This...
Which U.S. states will likely see more immigrants from Mexico in the coming years? By using U.S. and Mexican government data, team members tracked some predictors of immigration to conclude that Tennessee and Kentucky will likely see more Mexican immigrants...
Immigration crosses borders, sectors and cultures, so it is fitting that a hackathon on immigration would bring together Mexicans, Americans and Mexican Americans; journalists, programmers, nonprofits and other community members. Migrahack México was our largest Migrahack to date and one...
Each year, thousands of Mexican workers traveling to the United States through the system of H-2A visas (for use in the agricultural sector) and H-2B (for use in the service sector: construction, domestic work and services cleaning). Many of them...
“If you want to tell stories through maps, we’ll help you to visualize Mexico” is Mapagrafía’s mission. An open source mobile application, Mapagrafía can generate visualizations about Mexico from each users’ data. View the proyect Unlike most Migrahack projects, Mapagrafía...
Throughout Mexico, there are more than 40 migrant shelters that offer food, a place to stay and often, guidance for migrants on how to continue their journey or head back home. But many of these shelters fail to keep data...
Each year, an estimated 230,000 Mexicans migrate to the U.S., and 11 million currently live here permanently. Yet these individuals’ stories are often lost in the shuffle as they settle into their new lives up north. By analyzing, mapping and...
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