Kurzbeschreibung
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This project aims to develop an analytical, scientific, and social model in order to characterize the occurrence and the patterns of women's disappearance in urban areas in Central Mexico between 2007 and 2018. With the intention of producing public policies that prevent and eradicate this particular kind of violence, one of the main objectives is to build an interinstitutional work between the Swiss Embassy, the Commission of Mexico City for the Search of Missing People, and the Observatory on Disappearances and Impunity. These institutions will work together with the common objective of advancing a statistical, social and public policy model which could offer different scientific and social explanations about the occurrence of women's disappearance in Central Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico State,, Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala), especially in their urban areas, and that could be able to offer profound suggestions about search and registry actions of disappeared women.
From previous studies, we know that disappearances are concentrated in urban areas. These urban areas are also territorial units taken into account for the design of mobility, urban planning and security policies. Combining these policies with the efforts to prevent disappearance allows greater efficiency and coordination across and among levels of government on the implementation of regional planning framework applied at the metropolitan level. The metropolitan areas to be taken into account in this study will be: Valle de México, Toluca, Puebla-Tlaxcala and Cuautla and Cuernavaca. The municipalities that comprise each of these metropolitan areas can be consulted in Annex 1.
The present inter-institutional collaboration project is guided by one central question: How can we characterize the occurrence and the patterns of women's disappearance in Central Mexico between 2007 and 2020, specially in urban areas, and what can they teach in order to figure out a public policy
baseline? We also want to inquire: How can variability in existing records be managed and how can 10 different sources of information be cross-referenced to consolidate an analysis about women's disappearance in Central Mexico?
Our general methodology is clear: context analysis implies an understanding not only of causes and effects, but also of the general dynamics of social and cultural insertion of the phenomenon in question. So, it is assumed that the definition of Context Analysis is structured on the basis of three concomitant dimensions: formal, juridical and as a research instrument. It contributes to the protection of human rights and it is oriented towards the contribution to the task of searching for people. It is not framed in the determination of criminal responsibilities and does not constitute an intelligence analysis. It seeks the systematic identification of the scenarios to which the disappearance is associated and the power regimes that could be related to such phenomena. It serves to formulate public policies and determine strategic areas for action in order to I6resec possible solutions.
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Projektziele
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The results of this research can be used as a diagnosis about how the phenomenon of disappearance affects the women -in general- and the whole population -in particular- of central Mexico. In this sense, the results can be used to guide and create public policies, both at the local and federal level, directed towards the most vulnerable groups of society, especially young women and girls. These public policies must cover public transport, public spaces in urban cities, violence dynamics, school and job-related activities and family or affective relationships.
In addition, the results of this research will be able to provide mechanisms of communication and collaborative work between the public institutions at the local and federal level that are involved in the search, investigation, location and identification of disappeared people. These mechanisms must help victims navigate the institutionality from the start to the end of the process, from reporting a disappearance to making a positive match of identification and, by this way, to produce and improve their capabilities in search actions.
Finally, the results of this research can help create academic reports as a first approach to understand general dynamics on patterns of various victimizations that may be occurring jointly or interlinked.
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