The Role of Soft Infrastructure in Developing Sustainable Volunteer-Based Healthcare for Transient Migrants in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Border Region
Abstract
Each year since 2018, unprecedented numbers of people have been arriving at the border cities of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, United States, creating a local and national quandary due to concerns related to insecurity and lack of resources (Martínez, 2021, p. 182; Campbell, 2021, p. 9). Most of these people were—and continue to be—asylum seekers, not having the border as their final destination (Delgado et al., 2022). They are considered transient migrants in this research because “[t]ransit migration occurs as people stop in places between origin and intended destination, sometimes for short periods of time and sometimes for many years” (Castañeda, 2023, p. 35). Although this migratory situation intensified wary and ambivalent sentiments about migration vis-à-vis local and national security, it has also been a trigger event for remarkable local philanthropic mobilizations for migrant care (Martínez, 2021, p. 184).
Subject Area
Latin American Studies|Public health|Sociology
Recommended Citation
Avitia, Daniel, "The Role of Soft Infrastructure in Developing Sustainable Volunteer-Based Healthcare for Transient Migrants in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Border Region" (2024). ETD Collection for University of Texas, El Paso. AAI31298071.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/dissertations/AAI31298071