What is Alianza Americas?

Alianza Americas is a unique network of Latin American and Caribbean migrant-led organizations. Our mission is to foster an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable way of life for communities in the U.S. and our countries of origin.

Our main Issue Areas

Our work is dedicated to three main programmatic axes, each aimed at significantly improving the realities of migrants in the U.S. and Latin America.

Line of action
Systemic Inequities
Alianza Americas is committed to confronting the structural inequities that affect the communities where our members work. These inequities present significant barriers to the democratic process and social equality and threaten the health and well-being of the folks we work with day by day. We also recognize that this struggle presents us with great opportunities to strengthen the capacity for critical analysis, leadership, and advocacy among our members.As an organization comprising a network of grassroots organizations led by and serving immigrants of Latin American origin, we recognize that the history of efforts to maintain white supremacy have led to systemic inequities related to gender, race, ethnicities, language,  economic conditions, and social class. These intersectional factors are fundamental in defining our work in addressing structural inequities and building democracy and well-being. We structure our work around three fundamental goals which we see as pivotal to our work.
Confronting structural inequities and building social justice
Line of action
Immigrant Justice
Alianza Americas is deeply committed to promoting and safeguarding the human rights of migrants, including the right to migrate. Through our migrant justice work, we advance public education efforts to shed light on the challenges, triumphs, and needs of migrants and their families in the United States and in their countries of origin. We work towards ensuring that migrants and their families can establish deep roots in a safe and dignified manner in the places that they call home by advancing public education, advocacy, and narrative campaigns that are migrant centered.
Organized Migrants for Human Rights
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Climate Justice
The planet's deterioration in its capacity to sustain life is now an existential threat, impacting communities worldwide. Destructive, extractive, and exploitative economic practices over the past two centuries have led to ecological degradation, disproportionately affecting the Americas. This environmental degradation is a key to understanding human mobility and is reshaping migration in unprecedented ways. Alianza America's climate and environmental justice efforts prioritize racial and economic equity and empower migrant and rural displaced communities as leaders in the climate movement.
Humanizing Climate Justice

What we're doing

Read about our latest actions.

Project
Nos Conectamos
The Internet is a lifeline and a gateway to opportunity. We believe that digital connectivity must be accessible, affordable, reliable, and equitable. As Latino and migrant communities continue to grow, we demand that access to the internet grows as well. Nos Conectamos is a digital equity project through which Alianza Americas seeks to ensure that migrant communities of Latin American and Caribbean origin are empowered with digital literacy skills necessary to bridge the digital divide to improve health, economic and cultural outcomes.
Campaign
LiberArte
During the last decades, especially during the last five years, migrants are associated with detention, criminalization and family separation. Leaders, forced to migrate to the United States, and allies share what freedom means to them, and question the discourses associated with migrant communities.
Campaign
Freedom For All
Our Values: The right to human mobility is as fundamental as the right to live a life free of discrimination and to freely express one’s opinions. People who migrate have the right to seek protection and regularize their immigration status, without being criminalized, detained or locked up.
Project
Leadership Institute
For Alianza Americas, Leadership Development is critical to our mission and vision of creating a more equitable and sustainable world for Latin American and Caribbean immigrants. Our leadership programs have taken many forms over the years, evolving in response to the changing political landscape, new generations of immigrant leaders, and the needs of our communities. In its original form, the leadership program was a series of workshops that were brought directly to our member organizations in their respective states and communities, consisting of skill building in the areas of critical thinking, media training, advocacy, and develop an understanding of a transnational perspective.

What we're saying

Read more about our topics.

Blogpost
12 Years of DACA: Adult DACA Recipients on Their Experience and the Need for Reform 
August 15, 2024
Press Release
Indigenous peoples' self-determination is essential for preserving their culture and protecting their territories.
August 9, 2024
Press Release
Parole permits for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela should be reinstated. They are needed now more than ever.  
August 5, 2024
Press Release
The Venezuelan community demands respect for the popular will in Venezuela due to the lack of transparency and repression in the electoral process.
July 30, 2024

Our members

Our membership is the reason we exist. We are committed to responding to the needs of the organizations of our membership and to building spaces focused on collective analysis, advocacy actions, and responding to the needs of our communities. Our member organizations inform and drive our transnational vision and mission.

Access Living / Cambiando Vidas
Established in 1980, Access Living is an agent of change committed to fostering an inclusive society that enables Chicagoans with disabilities to live fully engaged and self–directed lives. Nationally recognized as a leading force in the disability advocacy community, Access Living challenges stereotypes, protects civil rights and champions social reform. Their staff and volunteers combine knowledge and personal experience to deliver programs and services that equip people with disabilities to advocate for themselves. Access Living is at the forefront of the disability rights movement, removing barriers so people with disabilities can live the future they envision.
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ)
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice brings together various organizations and individuals from around the State to provide a unified voice to ensure the social, legal, and civic rights of immigrants in Alabama; to promote equal participation and involvement; and to help facilitate the organizing and building of grassroots leadership within the immigrant community.
Alabama Latino AIDS Coalition (ALAC)
Together with medical providers and community liaisons, ALAC connects people with healthcare. They work with Latinx living with HIV/AIDS in Alabama, their partners and their families. They help with treatment follow up as well as other supportive services.
America Para Todos
America para Todos is the sister organization to CRECEN in Houston, providing information and networking for the constituencies served by CRECEN
Arkansas United
Arkansas United Community Coalition (Arkansas United, AUCC) is an immigrant rights nonprofit based in Springdale, Arkansas that is dedicated to empowering immigrants and their communities through leadership development, coalition building, the promotion of civic integration and immigration service navigation. Founded in 2010, AUCC boasts a network of 150 immigrant organizers and over 400 active volunteers in 17 communities across Arkansas. AUCC currently maintains immigrant resource centers with partners in Springdale, Fort Smith, Little Rock, De Queen and McGehee, Jonesboro, and Monticello.
Armadillos Ni Un Migrante Menos
The Armadillos Ni Un Migrante Menos are an autonomous, all volunteer-based search & rescue team with members from San Diego, Vista, San Marcos, Madera, and Fresno. They do the majority of their work in the Arizona & California deserts (occupied Tohono O´odham & Kumeyaay Land).
Asociación Guatemaltecos Sin Fronteras
Asociación Guatemaltecos Sin Fronteras is a group of Guatemalan people with a generous and caring spirit who bring their talents and resources to support the Guatemalan people. Their mission is to develop socioeconomic projects for their communities in the United States and Guatemala.
Asociación de Salvadoreños de Los Angeles (ASOSAL)
The mission of Asociación de Salvadoreños de Los Angeles (ASOSAL) is to improve the quality of life of Salvadorans, other Central Americans, and the Latino communities of Los Angeles by assisting immigrants to obtain legal permanent residence; promoting community and economic development projects and strategies for low-income communities; promoting the civil participation of Central American immigrants in the political system of Los Angeles and disseminating the richness of the Salvadoran culture and identity throughout the racial mosaic of Los Angeles.

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