In 2017, the Scalabrinian Center for Migration Studies (CSEM) began research on "Rebuilding life at the border: care and assistance".
to migrants on the northern border of Mexico", which sought to analyze, in a comprehensive way, the socio-pastoral actions developed at the Mother Assunta Institute (IMA) in the city of Tijuana, by the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo - Scalabrinians (MSCS) with migrants.
Researchers Igor B. Cunha and Nathaia Vince have published a report that collects reflections on the emergency care offered to migrant women and children by the MSCS Sisters after their field research, which took place from January 23 to February 26, 2018. This period of ethnographic immersion in the IMA and in Tijuana involved direct contact with the reality studied, and gradually allowed for informal conversations and semi-structured interviews with migrants, volunteers, employees of the IMA and other institutions that provide care to migrants in Tijuana.
Check out the report published in REMHU magazine below.