25 expat voices: Rachel Micah-Jones

In their own words

By Inside México Original Print Publication: February, 2009

For the "25 Mexicans You Should Know" edition of Inside México (November 2007), our editorial team sat in a room for hours, proposing and debating names of candidates, eventually whittling the list down to a mix of well- and less-well-known figures, each illuminating some aspect of this country.

For "25 Expats," we decided to do something different. We put the word out. We invited you, our readers, to tell us who to highlight. E-mailed nominations poured in from around the country, and several of you even called.

This inaugural group of 2009 finalists is a diverse bunch in terms of where they are from, where they live and what they do. You've helped us round up the expat equivalent of the "butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker." In this case, however, it is the activist, the developer, and the expat filmmaker...and the dog rescuer, the theater founder, the birder, and the book store owner. The list goes on.

The common thread running through each selection is the effort these people make to build community between expats and Mexicans. We think that by doing so, they are helping to expand the definition of Mexico. That is what immigrants do.

Expat: Rachel Micah-Jones

Rachel Micah-Jones

Organization: Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

Website: cdmigrante.org

Originally from: I am from Brick, the safest city in the United States, in the great garden state of New Jersey.

Lives in: The magnificent city of Zacatecas.

Living in Mexico: Just over three and a half years.

Why did you move to Mexico?

I founded a pioneering transnational migrant workers' rights law center, called Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, in Zacatecas.

Tell us about your work with the Centro de los Derechos del Migrante. How did you get this organization off the ground, and what are its guiding principles?

I spent a month in Zacatecas during the summer of 2004. At the time I was a farmworker attorney, and I met with a group of workers in their home village. I had interviewed the same workers in the United States only a few months earlier: in the US, the workers had been intimidated and silent, but in Mexico they poured out stories of extremely oppressive working conditions. At that moment, I realized that for the efforts of the worker-advocate community to be successful, we needed to have a presence here.

I was lucky enough to be chosen as an Echoing Green fellow in 2005, which together with public-interest law grants from Yale and Stanford law schools provided the seed money for CDM.

Essentially the idea is that a law center based in Mexico can empower and defend Mexico-based migrant workers by: (1) addressing the intimidation factor that deters workers from claiming their rights, and (2) filling the missing link between US-based workers' rights groups and Mexico-based migrant workers.

For each migrant we educate about their workplace rights, for each family with whom we have fought for justice after the husband and father died in a US workplace, for each guestworker we have deposed who was told that if he complained about awful working conditions he would go home in a coffin, for each of those thousands of workers with whom CDM has worked over the past three and a half years, we have removed the US-Mexico border as a barrier to justice. These workers have shown enormous courage, and I hope some of that has rubbed off on me.

Are you involved in other organizations, activities, or hobbies here?

I am pretty obsessed with my job. But after working hours, I love spending time with my two-year-old son, Leo, my husband, Jonathan, and my boxer dog, Tequila, la mas linda de todo Zacatecas! I also am involved with a group of young mothers in Zacatecas called Zacamamas.

Do you have a specific Mexico "moment" that makes you think, "That's what I love about this place"?

Every morning at 6 am when I wake up to either the Gas Imperial jingle, or the garbage whistle indicating that it's time to run down my street with the trash.

What are both the best and the hardest things about being an expat in Mexico?

The best thing is the quality of life and focus on the family. I love walking through downtown Zacatecas and seeing multiple generations all out together in the town square.

One hard thing for me to get used to (aside from being away from some friends and family) is having to get documents translated by perito traductores and then notarized, apostillized, certified, and re-notarized—I am still getting a handle on tramites.

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