Ana Elena Barrios

Ana Elena Barrios Juárez Badillo

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Psychologist, studied Master in Intercultural Psychology, in Lyon, France, Pensum of Master in Social Psychology and Political Violence in Guatemala and the specialty in "Psychosocial Supervision", by the Community Studies and Psychosocial Action Team, and the German Association of Psychosocial Supervision , also in Guatemala. He has worked with migrants in various contexts for thirteen years. First as a volunteer at the Casa del Migrante in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico's northern border. Then in Lyon, France for two years, giving psycho-emotional care to asylum seekers. Since 2008 in Chiapas, for seven years in accompaniment to peasant and indigenous communities of origin of migrants, in particular with groups of women and groups of young people who work for the right not to migrate, as well as conducting psychosocial accompaniment with relatives of disappeared migrants. Since 2016, she has been part of the team at the Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center, in Tapachula, working on the psycho-legal accompaniment of migrants.

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She is co-author of various publications: research, articles and methodological guides that systematize the experience of psychosocial work with migrant individuals and families:

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• An exercise in psychosocial supervision in a moving process (2018)

Article that is part of the book. Article written as a team with Liliana Souza and Patricia Samudio.

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• Junax Kotantik (2016)

Systematization of the process of psychosocial accompaniment to the Junax Kotantik collective, of relatives of missing migrants in Chiapas. Written in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Psychosocial Work Group.

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• Sowing Good Living from the Heart (2016)

Systematization of the process of psychosocial accompaniment to groups of women working for the right not to migrate in peasant and indigenous communities of Chiapas. ENLACE, Communication and Training AC

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• Opening borders with the heart (2014)

Methodological guide for the implementation of the Psychosocial Approach in specific migratory contexts. Written in conjunction with the Motor Group for Psychosocial Work on Migrations.

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• Let's talk about our rights, let's talk about our migrations (2011)

Methodological guide for community leaders, systematization of the training experience promoted and carried out with groups from the border municipalities of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Written in conjunction with the Cross-Border Coordination Committee on Migration and Gender.

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• South beginning of a path (2009)

Documentary and field research on the general situation of Human Rights of migrants in regions of the southern border of Mexico in their triple condition of origin-return, transit and destination. Written in conjunction with Dafne Isis Cruz, edited by ENLACE, Comunicación y Capacitación AC and the Latin American Association of Organizations for the Promotion of Development ALOP.