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Evidence-based migration policies are a key component of good migration governance. However, several recent studies and evaluations warn of multiple challenges to ensure the availability of up-to-date data and information and understand real migration in the region.
Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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Historically, the Caribbean has been a region with an extensive migration transit internally, intraregional and externally. Due to the constant movement of the migratory flows in the area, Caribbean migrants faced the danger of being potentially exploited by traffickers.
Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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The recent Migration Profile for Jamaica shows that emigration continues to be greatly in excess of immigration.
Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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Migration and family remittances are issues of great relevance to El Salvador.
Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development, Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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This instrument has classified a set of indicators of compliance with the Palermo Protocol.
Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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This document responds to the commitment of the eleven Member Countries of the Regional Conference on Migration (CRM) to promote, protect and guarantee the rights of migrant women in the region, in accordance with their international commitments.
Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English, Spanish
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This preliminary document is a summary of one of the inputs that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is providing as a contribution to the Global Compact for Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration (GMP), to be agreed in 2018, as envisaged in the New York Declaration…
Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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This paper presents a contextual analysis of the mutual relations between migration and women’s empowerment with the aim to facilitate the debate among stakeholders, including policymakers, practitioners and civil society in the Caribbean subregion on the role of migration as a means of…
Thematic Area: Migration, environment, and climate change, Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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