The Work Plan on the Smuggling of Migrants of the Network of Liaison Officers on Combating the Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons of the Regional Conference on Migration, aims at guiding and promoting regional cooperation to prevent and combat the smuggling of migrants, while protecting the rights of smuggled migrants, in particular those who are victims of related crimes.
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Despite the growing feminization of migration, the invisibility of women as active subjects in migration processes, which is based on prejudice, persists, norms and practices that perpetuate female subordination and discrimination in all areas of society by generating inequality. This document responds to the commitment of the eleven Member Countries of the Regional Conference on Migration (RCM) to promote, protect and guarantee the rights of migrant women in the region, in accordance with their international commitments.
In order to better understand the contexts of return and reintegration in Mexico and northern Central America, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has conducted a number of studies at the country and regional levels. The present report contains the results of a study carried out with migrants and staff from institutions involved in the provision of reintegration services in Honduras, where the main focus of attention is on returning migrant children and adolescents.
As part of IOM’s support to the governments of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, "Life Stories of Returning Migrants" collects 40 human experiences to raise awareness about the life situations of migrants who forcibly return to their country of origin.
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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This report summarizes the results of surveys of 67 beneficiaries of IOM’s Assisted Voluntary Return Programme (AVR), assisted from May to July 2021. provides important information on the experiences of migrants in countries of destination and origin, as well as plans for re-migrating, their physical and mental health status, financial security, employment, physical security and any assistance received after their return. Programmes in Mexico and North Central American countries. No. 7
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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.