translated from Spanish: What are the occupations of migrants traveling in the caravan

before leaving on the migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala caravan, the men and women who came to Tijuana, Baja California, hoping to cross into the United States, they worked as artisans, peasants, vigilant, and even, as public officials.
According to a survey conducted by the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef) in the hostel for migrant installed in sports Benito Juárez, in the city of Tijuana, most of the migrants have an educational level between zero and six years of study in pr average (64.5%), although 15% of them have ten years or more.
Among men, 53.3% traveled alone, the 27.9% with his family and a 18.9% with friends. The women, in their majority (82%) was accompanied by relatives, a 3.1% by friends, and a 16.9% were alone.
Migrant women said that before leaving their country they were occupations of students (19.6%), drivers (17.9%), as security staff (17.5%), farming (5.1%), housewives (6%) or artisans (5.1%).
Some also mentioned that they were professionals, civil servants, auxiliary administrative, traders and operators of industrial machinery.
In the case of men, the majority of them were craftsmen (25.8%), farmers (23%), professionals (9.5%), drivers (9.5%) and operators of industrial machinery (9.1%).
Others mentioned that they worked as servers public, technicians, assistants, employees in sales, security guards, farmers, students, and domestic workers.
Despite the difficulties in reaching the United States, 49.5% of the migrants who are in Tijuana say they think trying to cross the border fence, while a 21.8% says it intends to apply for asylum in that country.
20% of them said the researchers of the Colef who intends to stay in Tijuana, and 6% said she doesn’t know what she will do. Some others said that they think settle in other States of the country, returned to their place of origin, and there are even those who expect to travel to Canada.
Before arriving in Tijuana, migrants reported to have suffered thefts on the way (76%), some were injured (5), were abducted (3.8%) or were abused by the authorities (2.9%).
The reasons why the decided to travel in a caravan, explains the Colef, is because this is a choice of mobility that allows you to give them visibility, support and protection provided by social organizations, media and rights organizations human.
The caravans “represent a relatively safe and inexpensive means of mobility compared with the very high cost of the smuggling”, say specialists.
Specialists explain that the “wide dissemination” that took the first caravan of Hondurans because Donald Trump spoke of it in the run-up to the mid-term election in the United States helped those who intended to emigrate to that country is inform about this process.
how serve them while they remain in Tijuana?
for the Colef, it is important that while migrants staying in hostels in Tijuana, have hygiene conditions that prevent the spread of diseases, and as soon as possible, authorities to integrate them to the schemes of existing health services.
In the case of the safety of the city, the Colef warns that the presence of about 7 thousand Central American migrants represents risks that can be recruited or blackmailed by criminal groups, it recommended to Tijuana that authorities reassign the tasks of patrolling and attention to citizenship by the police.
It also recommends action of prevention activities linked to organized crime, prevent expressions of hostility against migrants, and to be protected at the hostel where they remain.
The institution suggests that authorities create a population register, in order to monitor their needs and generate schemas for volunteers and donors may contribute in priority areas of needs.
Since it is expected that a significant number of members of the migrant caravan decide to stay in Tijuana, the Colef points out that it is important to support integration efforts with facilities in the processes of family documentation, installation of day care for children, and schemes to find jobs.
According to the College, expressions of solidarity and rejection that have received the migrants in the border town are part of “common” schemes of encounters between local people and those who come from other sites to be established, so they are reactions “predictable”.
The challenge, says the institution, “is to see how we can reduce tensions and conflict to live in the time that we have to be together”.
The document the caravan of migrant Central American in Tijuana 2018, diagnosis and proposals for action on the web page of the Colef reads full.

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