Dejando atrás nuestros sueños: una mirada al desplazamiento interno forzado en México

En este análisis, la autora, a partir de su propia experiencia del desplazamiento interno, rescata el testimonio de una familia desplazada para analizar la situación de violencia y desplazamiento en México.

Published on May 10, 2022

Norma Adriana Garduño Salazar | lanid, IDPs, Humanities, Americas (inc Caribbean)

Morelos, Mexico. “Caravana por la Vida”. 2013 © Norma Garduño

La crisis humanitaria de desplazamiento forzado interno se ha extendido de manera vertiginosa en los últimos años. México ha comenzado a aparecer en informes mundiales como un país con un alarmante crecimiento de eventos en materia de desplazamiento forzado interno a partir del año 2006, que la administración de Felipe Calderón, ex Presidente Mexicano desde el 2006 hasta el 2012, decidió declarar la guerra contra el narcotráfico. Ante la ausencia de marco regulatorio, ausencia de políticas públicas y de una definición amplia y concreta del desplazamiento forzado interno este fenómeno y las víctimas exigen atención integral e inmediata. El presente artículo rescata el testimonio de una familia desplazada haciendo un ejercicio de memoria tratando de resignificar su experiencia para construir una exigencia en términos de construcción de políticas públicas que abone a la prevención, justicia y pacificación de la sociedad mexicana actual.

Norma Adriana Garduño Salazar es una maestra en Salud Pública por el Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP). Ha impartido diversos cursos y diplomados en áreas como la partería, la medicina tradicional mexicana y la formación de promotores de salud comunitaria tanto en comunidades indígenas y/o campesinas como en instituciones públicas y privadas. Miembro del Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad desde 2011 y del Movimiento morelense contra las concesiones de minería a tajo abierto por metales desde 2012. Actualmente colabora en el Centro de derechos de víctimas de la violencia Minerva Bello en donde brinda acompañamiento a defensores y periodistas que como ella han sobrevivido ataques por su labor ante el Mecanismo de protección a personas defensoras de derechos humanos y periodistas y en organizaciones de la sociedad civil que buscan que el desplazamiento forzado sea normado en una ley que incluya la voz de las víctimas.

Este Working Paper fue escrito por la autora durante su Summer Fellowship on Internal Displacement (Beca de Verano sobre Desplazamiento Interno) en el Internal Displacement at the Internal Displacement Research Programme de la Refugee Law Initiative. La beca fue apoyada por el Arts and Humanities Research Council, en nombre del UKRI Global Challenge Research Fund, como parte del proyecto financiado “Interdisciplinary Network on Internal Displacement, Conflict and Protection” (AH /T005351/1).

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