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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 study was prepared in collaboration with the Regional Conference on Migration (RCM). It presents a contextualization of regularization programs and processes in North America, Central America and the Dominican Republic.

Regional study: Migration regularization programmes and…

Thematic Area: Immigration and Border Governance
Language: Spanish
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Every year, thousands of persons leave their homes seeking a better future, which has become virtually unattainable in their countries of origin.

Searching for Missing Migrants in Central and North America…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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This is a quick reference guide for IOM staff on the ground dealing with a crisis situation and should communicate with the migrant population in transit or destination countries.

Practical Guide to Communication in Migration Crisis…

Thematic Area: Operations and emergencies, Media and Communications
Language: Spanish
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The Eastern Caribbean region has some of the highest emigration rates in the world, and yet is also known for maintaining strong ties with their home countries through social groups such as diaspora organizations.

Diaspora Groups of the Eastern Caribbean: Opportunities,…

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: English
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This report summarizes the results of surveys of 67 beneficiaries of IOM’s Assisted Voluntary Return Programme (AVR), assisted from May to July 2021.

Monitoring Report Assisted Voluntary Return Programs June-…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance, Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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More than 5,000 deaths and disappearances during migration across Central and North America and the Caribbean have been recorded since 2014, though many more likely go undocumented. This crisis of migrant deaths is well-publicized in some areas but poorly covered in others.

“If not for pure necessity” deaths and disappearances on…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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The environment governs life and all its forms by providing the conditions for the formation, adaptation and maintenance of individuals and communities.

Human mobility from disasters and climate change in Central…

Thematic Area: Migration, environment, and climate change
Language: Spanish
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This research invites specialists in the migration phenomenon from the different sectors working on behalf of migrants and their human rights, consult this diagnosis with the aim of continuing to add knowledge and recommendations that are useful for the design of public policies that, according…

Offshore: migrants and castaways at sea diagnosis on…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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