Conexion Migrante

Conexión Migrante is an independent digital organization that offers services and information to migrants in general, and to Mexican and Latino migrants living in the United States and their families in their places of origin, in particular.

The online news and information service was created on November 8, 2016 with the objective of being a bridge of contact between countries and a support so that the participation of migrants is more efficient and transparent in their states and communities. It comprises a group of journalists and specialists in different subjects such as migration, diplomacy, human rights, hearings, technology, photography, video and communication services. The team is convinced that information is the most powerful tool to defend the rights of migrants.

They want to help migrants in processes as simple as obtaining identification, and as complicated as deportation. The outlet does journalism of services and solutions; it offers informative tools and personalized advice to migrants who need it. It has great power to deliver messages to the Mexican migrant community in the United States and to migrants in Mexico and Central and South America. Its Migrant Assistance Center receives an average of 700 messages, phone calls and emails each month with the feelings, doubts and needs of a growing community, which are answered in their entirety.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

In March 2023, the outlet was part of a conglomerate of five media outlets on the continent that won funding from the International Center for Journalist (ICFJ) to investigate and publish a report in July of this year titled “The misinformation trap: the business of deceiving migrant people.” In November 2022, Conexión Migrante won the 2022 Roche Prize in Health, in the Digital Journalism category, with a report on how Mexican and Latin communities faced the Covid 19 pandemic, titled Migrant Networks in the Pandemic.

With that same report, the team members were finalists for the National Journalism Award in Mexico, in the Multiformat Journalism category. In March 2021, the organization received the World Summit Awards 2020 award, for digital development in the area of ​​Inclusion and Empowerment. The WSA 2020 judges chose Conexión Migrante from a group of more than 340 organizations from more than 70 countries around the world. We were one of the 40 solutions chosen by the WSA 2020 jury for contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Source: SembraMedia