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A 16-year-old child migrant stands outside a government-run shelter in Quetzaltenango. The teenager was caught by the Mexican authorities and deported a day earlier. She was on her way to Ohio to meet her mother, who left 12 years ago.

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"Children do not migrate -- they flee."
This quote has been used to describe the reason children have been immigrating to the United States from Central America.

Read the article about children from Guatemala.
Study the photographs of children from Guatemala.
Think about how the movement of children in Guatemala is best categorized.
Discuss what factors cause that movement.
Write an argument about whether children are migrating or fleeing Guatemala and provide a counterclaim..

Claim:  My claim is that children ______.
Evidence:  My evidence is ______.
Justification:  My evidence supports my claim because _______ even though ________.
Summarization:  The children wanted to ___________, but __________ so ___________.
Extension:  Create a Screenchomp, Tellagami, or iMovie of your argument.

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In October 2013, I traveled to Guatemala's western highlands to report on the surge of children migrating from Central America to the United States. The largely indigenous region was more or less unchanged from when I'd lived in a village near the Guatemala-Mexico border in 2006, or when I'd returned to do graduate work there in 2009: It was poor, susceptible to natural disasters, and full of families with relatives living in the United States.

Photographer Katie Orlinsky visited many of the same places that I did, and her evocative work from Guatemala City and Quetzaltenango, the unofficial capital of the highlands, illuminates the poverty that continues to push children and families north. Recent data suggests that while far fewer Hondurans and Salvadorans have been arriving at the US border, the number of Guatemalans has dipped only slightly. As one Guatemalan migrant shelter official told Orlinsky, "Children do not migrate-they flee."
All photos by Katie Orlinsky for Too Young to Wed, in collaboration with Humanity United.

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"Children do not migrate-they flee": striking photos from poverty-ravaged Guatemala

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In October 2013, I traveled to Guatemala's western highlands to report on the surge of children migrating from Central America to the United States. The largely indigenous region was more or less unchanged from when I'd lived in a village near the Guatemala-Mexico border in 2006, or when I'd returned to do graduate work there in 2009: It was poor, susceptible to natural disasters, and full of families with relatives living in the United States.