Antropología de Emergencia en el trabajo con menores y mujeres centroamericanas en busca de asilo

This paper focuses on the recent humanitarian crisis witnessed by the world, represented by the hundreds of thousands of people who cross borders, fleeing from the atrocities of civil wars, violence, poverty and despair. Just two years ago the United States experienced an avalanche of thousands of children, young people and women crossing the southern border of United States. Drug cartels, maras or gangs, extortion, in addition to poverty, are the complicit factors of the violence that pushes, particularly women and children to escape from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Once they cross the bor-der with the United States, even seeking protection with the asylum petition, if they are apprehended by the border patrol, they are exposed to deportation, and / or detention in immigration centers for women or families. These detention centers represent legal limbo for these women and families, condemned to invisibility, a permanent state of marginality and fear of deportation. Within the framework of neoliberal ideology, and using a critical analysis, this brief exploratory study aims to expose the intricacies of the legal and human complexities in which women and minors who cross the border in search of asylum and protection are suspended. Likewise, this analysis points to the need for an Emergency Anthropology, as a tool for immediate intervention in working with children seeking asy-lum and women in detention.