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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.

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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This document was made possible thanks to funding from the European Commission’s Directorate General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), under the project “Supporting vulnerable migrants in Haiti through improved protection” implemented by the International Organization…

This is my story. "As long as there is water in the…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English, French
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of many migrants, raising serious concerns about the preservation of their well-being and rights. As El Salvador is a country of migrants, analysing the impact of the pandemic on livelihoods and well-being becomes relevant to its recovery.

Impact of COVID-19 on households with migrants in La Unión…

Thematic Area: Migration Data, Migration Health
Language: Spanish
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This report provides an overview of the findings of surveys conducted in August-September 2021 by the IOM Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) Program in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador with 57 AVR beneficiaries supported during August-September 2021.

Monitoring Report Assisted Voluntary Return Programs…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: English
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