Iza Maria Sánchez Siller

Mexico Assessing the impact of Mexico’s Welfare Bank: Reaching the hardest-to-reach populations

Mexico Caged Beginnings: The Influence of Mexican Prison Infrastructure on the Early Development of Children with Incarcerated Mothers

In Mexico, the National Criminal Execution Law since 2016 grants incarcerated women the right to maintain custody of their children under three years of age within the Penitentiary Center. By 2021, there were 344 children living their early childhood in these facilities. However, only 43 out of 317 prisons had facilities for the education and […]

Mexico Unsupported Medical Interns in Rural Medical Units, Nuevo León

Hard to Reach Social Service Medical Interns (SSMIs) sent to remote areas in the state of Nuevo León  Key Takeaways The program for social service medical interns (SSMIs) in Mexico needs to be restructured due to the following: Acknowledgements We are grateful to the doctors and medical interns with experience in the southern parts of […]

Mexico The “Kolombia Regia”: Social Vindication in the Face of Stigma and Violence in Monterrey

Hard to Reach The Kolombian subculture who face ideological and social barriers and have been associated with conflict, violence, and street gangs, making them targets of discrimination. Key Takeaways There is a clear need to implement strategic and research-based policy measures that aim to make the spaces where the Kolombian community safer and allow its […]

Mexico The Invisibility of Children with Cognitive Immaturity in Marginalized Mexican Communities

Hard to Reach Children, teenagers, and their families who live outside urban areas in Mexico who have been victims of social inequality, political violence, and poor-quality education. Key Takeaways Education is one of 29 fundamental rights established by the Mexican constitution, and perhaps the only one that every government has failed to support. Even though […]

Mexico The City Seen By Women: The Appropriation of Public Spaces from a Gender Perspective

Hard to Reach Women and girls in the neighbourhoods of Lomas Modelo Norte and Colonia del Topo-Fomerrey 49, Monterrey that face alarming levels of violence and other forms of insecurity in both private and public spaces. Key Takeaways Both Lomas Modelo and the Fomerrey 49 Topo Chico hill communities face social, political, economic, and cultural […]

Mexico Struggle and Resilience of Migrant Indigenous Communities in Irregular Settlements in Mexico

The rapid industrialization of Monterrey in the last century and the lack of attention to social
demands have hyper stratified social interaction in the city. Monterrey embodies the structural
inequalities of Mexico and Latin America, where migrant indigenous people have had to face
constant economic and social pressures, and at the same time remain the most invisible in the
Northern Mexican society. This study aims to describe and explore to what extent the irregular status of urban settlements hinders the access to regulated basic services from migrant indigenous groups in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area and if this perpetuates the cycle of poverty.