Safe Mobility for Migrant Persons: A Narrative Exploration from the Integrated Care Context.

Context: Latin America is undergoing intense, shifting multinational migratory flows. Migrants face persistent obstacles throughout the migration cycle to exercise safe human mobility: administrative requirements, limited knowledge of care pathways, linguistic and cultural barriers, and fragmentation across levels, sectors, and institutions. Institutionally, partially enforced regulatory frameworks coexist with uneven operational capacities, limited information interoperability, and incomplete coordination with community actors.

In this context, the workshop will identify how integrated care can contribute, from a transformative perspective, to developing a safe human mobility framework that updates and contextualizes knowledge for different migration situations. Using narrative exploration, it will examine experiences and perspectives of diverse actors in integrated care represented in the conference audience. The results, based on varied contexts, will support research initiatives grounded in the voices of pregnant migrant persons and aligned with key social actors in Latin America.

Audience: Since our workshop will use a narrative exploration approach, the audience should include a diverse range of participants, ensuring varied opinions and experiences on integrated health care. We expect participation from health service professionals; researchers and academics in public health, equity, and migration; decision-makers; and representatives from civil society organizations, migrant collectives, and patient communities.

The convergence of these actors will provide critical perspectives and practical experiences to enrich the dialogue, ensuring inputs reflect real needs and support incorporating the integrated care perspective into designing a safe human mobility model.

Structure:The session will open with a 10-minute introduction to present the objectives, format, and participatory activities. This will be followed by a 20-minute segment to contextualize the project proposal, outlining its scope, approach, and relevance for integrated care and safe human mobility. Then, during 30 minutes of group work, narrative exploration will be used as the core methodology: through storytelling, applied knowledge will be generated by sharing lived experiences around three categories—conceptual perspectives on safe human mobility, individual agency, and institutional strategies for migrants’ access to health services.

Participants’ narratives will form the basis for new ideas and proposals. A 20-minute segment will present and compare group findings across contexts and share insights together. Finally, 10 minutes will be reserved for closing reflections, including immediate agreements and next steps.

Results: The workshop will add an experiential perspective from actors involved in integrated health care to clarify the space of a safe human mobility framework linked to integrated care—specifying functions, responsibilities, and care flows needed and how these articulate with different levels of the system and with community actors. Through exchange across contexts, opportunities and barriers will be identified to update knowledge on safe human mobility, with emphasis on the phases of the migration cycle.

It also aims to characterize the role of agency within the mobility framework, identifying how it generates capacities for change and how these capacities translate into opportunities for a better realization of safe human mobility. A key outcome will be the identification and co-construction of strategies, mechanisms, and structures that support safe human mobility and that can serve as guidance for Latin American contexts.