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The Virtual Library on Migration facilitates access to documents and research published by different IOM missions both in the region and globally, as well as repositories related to other United Nations agencies, academia and civil society.

This book includes a diagnosis of migration and kidnapping in Chiapas, the materials of the information campaign focused on migrants in transit and a manual of procedures for detection, channelling and assistance to migrants who are victims of kidnapping.

Prevention of kidnappings of migrants in transit through…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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If you are failed refugee claimant, IOM can help you with your voluntary return to your home country through the Assisted Voluntary Return & Reintegration pilot programme implemented within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) as of 29 June 2012.

The Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Pilot (AVRR)

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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Migration flows between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and between the European Union (EU) are not new. The first dates from the late 15th century mainly in a north-south direction, that is, from Europe to the Americas.

Migration routes and dynamics between the countries of…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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The objective of this document is to prepare a diagnosis of the situation of the production of migration data in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, as well as in each of the four subregions and the countries that compose them, this is: 1. Mercosur, Chile and Venezuela; 2.

Rapid assessment of data collection structures in the area…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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The "Psychosocial Care Guide for Migrant Returnees and Victims of Trafficking" was developed as part of the project "Reintegration of Migrant Returnees and Victims of Trafficking in El Salvador".

Psychosocial care guide for migrant returnees in vulnerable…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance, Migration Health
Language: Spanish
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The current migratory reality in the Mesoamerican region is characterized by its magnitude and its notable contribution to the development of the countries in the area, as well as by the prevalence of labour migration within the migratory flows originating in the region.

Migrating in the crisis

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish
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This publication responds to the request of some IOM member states of having a global document that compiles integration policies and practices.

Compendium of Migrant Integration Policies and Practices

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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In Mexico, various socio-economic and cultural factors, as well as certain geographical conditions and the very nature of the migration process, accentuate the risks of migrant populations to human trafficking in that country.

Trafficking in persons in Mexico: diagnosis of assistance…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
Date: