The World Social Forum on Migration: An experience of transnational political participation of civil society in the migration issue

Abstract

The World Social Forum on Migration 2018 (WSFM) held in Mexico City as a proposal and a process of transnational political participation of civil society on migration, enounced the limits of civil society organization with the pressure of the arrival of the Caravan of Migrants to Mexico in November 2018. The article analyzes the concept of civil society and political activism under the forms of building transnational networks and movements with experience in the issue of migration and human mobility. In addition, it analyzes the initiatives of the WSFM based on the interactions that arise in world social forums in correlation with the Regional Consultative Forums on Migration, seen both as political tools for the construction of methodologies that
guide towards a development project for immigrants and looking forward to eliminate the vulnerability of
undocumented immigrants.