Assessing Forced returnee’s reintegration in El Salvador

• In Event: Roundtable: Latin American Criminology: Finding a Place Amid Global, Regional, and Local Challenges (Sponsored by Division of International Criminology)

Abstract

Between 2012 and 2019, almost 315 thousand adults and children were deported or returned to El Salvador, mainly from the United States and Mexico (IOM). Reintegration into their country of origin is challenging in several areas: relationships with family and loved ones, reception from the community, and barriers to economic and social insertion. This presentation discusses the use of several secondary data sources to understand and assess the returnees' and communities' readiness to reintegrate and the challenges and limitations such exercise portrays.

Author

• Lidia Vásquez Rodríguez, Graduate Center, CUNY / John Jay College