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The chapter describes the institutional efforts to provide protection mechanisms to transmigrants in Mexico. It argues that these institutions have had limited impact in curbing abuses against transmigrants because they engage in a top-down, fragmented, and macro-natured approach. In light of this, it proposes to redress the gap between the desire to provide protection to transmigrants, and the actual delivery of those protections, by increasing transmigrants’ legal representation rates. Doing so will increase adherence and use of the current laws by the institutions, and a means to identify ways to improve the existing systems of protection.
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Ley de Migración 2011 arts. 66–76. These articles specifically address irregular migrants and transmigrants and include such rights as the right to be informed of charges within 36 hours and the right to receive a know-your-rights presentation.
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Cruz, E. (2017). Challenges in Building Institutions to Protect Transmigrants’ Human Rights: The Mexican Case. In: Bender, S., Arrocha, W. (eds) Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55074-3_12
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