Amid an economic downturn, mass deportations, and intensifying anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, Mexican migrants have been forced to return to Mexico, and their U.S.-born family members have emigrated with them. The arrival of these Americans has contributed to an extraordinary growth of the U.S. population in Mexico, now home to more than 600,000 American children. While these children struggle to adapt to a new language, country, and education system, they are losing language and cultural ties to the United States. We know the vast majority plan to return home one day, but will they be prepared? Come join us on June 6th to hear from Tran about what she’s learned from in-depth interviews about America’s children in Mexico and what her organization, The Rhizome Center for Migrants, is doing to ensure their future.

Tran Dang, Founder and Executive Director of The Rhizome Center for Migrants.Tran is a former large law firm attorney who has represented victims of persecution in regional human rights forums and systems, UNHCR, and the UN special procedures. Before moving to Mexico where she currently resides, she directed a human rights office and legal aid clinic in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2018, she founded The Rhizome Center for Migrants, a U.S. nonprofit providing post-deportation legal, advocacy, and reintegration support to the returned and deported community in Western Central Mexico.

The Rhizome Center for Migrants (www.rhizomecenter.org) is an independent, secular 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our on-the-ground project in Guadalajara, Jalisco, supports deported and returned migrants through legal aid, advocacy, and reintegration support. Today, the Rhizome Center is the leading voice on binational issues impacting the deported and their family.