🌱 Semillas en Trayectoria: From Diagnosis to Collective Action
The launch of Semillas en Trayectoria, the first statistically representative Migrant Integration Index in Mexico, was just the beginning. If the Index was born to name the gaps, inequalities, and realities experienced by people on the move, the next step—urgent and necessary—is to convert evidence into collective action.
With that objective, on January 22, 2026, the Fondo de Comunidades de Acogida (Welcoming Communities Fund)—comprised of Fomento Social Banamex, Fundación Coppel, Nacional Monte de Piedad, and Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP)—co-convened a working breakfast in Mexico City together with RacismoMX. The gathering brought together representatives from the public sector, international organizations, private sector, and civil society to share the Index's main findings and, above all, to open a strategic conversation about what comes next.
From data to strategic conversation
During the presentation, the approach of the Integration Index for People in Situations of Mobility (Semillas en Trayectoria) was shared, which understands integration as a bidirectional process between migrants, host societies, and government. A process that spans economic, social, and security and access to justice dimensions, and that cannot be analyzed through paradigms imported from the Global North that don't reflect the complexity of the Mexican context.
The data is compelling. The main problem facing migrants in Mexico continues to be lack of employment and economic resources, accompanied by high levels of discrimination, particularly when seeking work or attempting to access the financial system. The Index also reveals profound gaps in access to healthcare and an alarming reality: the average age of death for migrants in Mexico is significantly lower than that of the Mexican population, concentrated in young and productive ages.
But the breakfast wasn't limited to presenting figures. It was, above all, a space to collectively think about how to respond to these findings.
Identifying critical bottlenecks
From the dialogue among attendees, some of the structural bottlenecks that obstruct integration began to be outlined more clearly. One of the most reiterated was access to financial and labor inclusion.
Public sector representatives pointed out that many of the barriers aren't due to lack of will, but to specific regulatory frameworks, such as certain provisions of anti-money laundering legislation, which in practice prevent migrants from opening bank accounts or accessing basic financial products. From the legislative sphere, interest was expressed in opening conversations with the Migration Affairs Commission to review these bottlenecks and explore possible reforms.
From the private sector, concrete proposals emerged: from sensitivity workshops for human resources teams and banking personnel, to identifying areas of opportunity where companies can act to eliminate discriminatory practices that often operate in normalized ways.
International organizations and development partners shared learnings from similar experiences in other contexts, emphasizing that, in many cases, the problem isn't the absence of policies, but the way norms are—or aren't—translated into accessible practices for people on the move.
A Living Index, A Shared Agenda
This meeting confirmed something central: Semillas en Trayectoria is not a closed product, but a living tool. A starting point to articulate alliances, guide public policy advocacy, strengthen data generation, and build solutions that respond to the diversity of migratory trajectories that coexist in Mexico today.
Next steps include incorporating testimonies and narratives from migrants that allow humanizing the data, publishing the complete report, and developing concrete advocacy proposals based on the Index's results. Possible extensions of the model are also being explored, incorporating new dimensions—such as cultural and civic-political—as well as the role of the private sector and civil society.
Keep planting seeds, together
The breakfast made clear that integration doesn't happen by inertia. It requires coordination, political will, institutional changes and, above all, spaces where different actors can sit down to listen, question, and build together.
From HIP, RacismoMX and the Fondo de Comunidades de Acogida, we will continue promoting these meeting spaces, convinced that only in this way can we transform data into policies, and policies into real conditions of dignity, access to rights, and well-being for people on the move.
🌱 Seeds in Motion continues to grow. The invitation is open to those who want to join this collective agenda for real, measurable, and just integration. You can contact Andrea Villaseñor de la Vega, Migration Director at HIP: [email protected]