Immigrants, Asylum Seekers and Hospitality in the El Paso / Juarez Borderland
Asylum Seeker Sewing Workshop
The Punto de Partida Migrant Narratives Project interviewed facilitators and participants at a sewing workshop that was a collaboration between Abara and Huellas, a cooperative microenterprise for migrant women, in a shelter for transnational migrants in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
The sewing workshop participants were primarily women from Central America who were unable to enter the United States due to MPP (Remain in Mexico) or Title 42. The workshop gave them the opportunity to earn income while waiting. Some of the interview participants have since been reunited with family members in the United States to await their immigration court hearings. Some have returned to their countries. Some continue to wait in Mexico. Their names and voices have been withheld for their protection.
El Proyecto de Narrativas Migrantes Punto de Partida hizo entrevistas con facilitadores y participantes de un taller de costura que era una colaboración entre Abara y Huellas, una microempresa cooperativa para mujeres migrantes, en un albergue para migrantes transnacionales en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México.