This document is the regional report of the Study on Reintegration: Migration and Cities carried out by the International Organization for Migration, IOM, in the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America and Mexico. The study investigates the reintegration processes of returning migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.
The main objective is to document the causes and consequences of migration in the region and to identify possible development areas that will serve as the basis for the Comprehensive Plan of Attention to Migration in Central America (PAIM-SICA). The study is the result of the joint work of SICA, IOM and UNHCR. It was developed through a collaborative methodology that included inter-agency workshops with the eight Member States, in which more than 70 government officials participated.
Every year, thousands of people leave their homes in an attempt to forge a future that has become virtually unattainable in their countries of origin. Economic deprivation, lack of access to education and employment, structural violence, natural disasters and political instability have motivated people around the world, but mainly from Central American countries and Mexico, to seek a new life in the United States of America.
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Main findings of the survey carried out in Central America and Mexico. This survey aims to generate data for the analysis of the impact of COVID-19 in this population, which guide the response of the multiple actors involved in the health response, migration management and socio-economic recovery strategies.
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The present report presents an overview of the regular mechanisms that allow labour migration in Mesoamerica, as important elements in national and regional migration governance structures.
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.
The environment governs life and all its forms by providing the conditions for the formation, adaptation and maintenance of individuals and communities. Thus, when sudden or gradual extreme events such as storms, earthquakes or drought, among others, exacerbated or not by climate change, the living conditions of populations suffer alterations that can force their members to leave their territories, affecting their sources and forms of social reproduction.
Since 2014, more than 5,000 deaths and disappearances have been documented along migratory routes through Central America, North America and the Caribbean, although many more are likely to remain undocumented. In some places, this crisis of migrant deaths is widely publicized, but in others it is not sufficiently known.
This report contributes to a better understanding of the evidence on the link between human mobility, environment, disasters and climate change through a mapping of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The study also aims to: verify the political and legal responses to this nexus in the seven countries of Central America; formulate recommendations or general guidelines for the development of data harvesting mechanisms; and verify the extent to which the definition of climate migration proposed by IOM is applied in the region.
