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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 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…

Work plan on smuggling of migrants

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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In its content, it also offers recommendations for the generation of proposals related to labour migration, with emphasis on the regularization of migration status and social integration and inclusion.

Sociolabor Study of foreigners and their families -…

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish
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This handbook is intended as an easily accessible guide for opening, maintaining and strengthening migration information centres. It is aimed at local government bodies, and non-State institutions and organizations wishing to serve as information hubs, in collaboration with IOM.

Information Hubs on Migration: Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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This study, conducted by IOM in June 2019, provides information on the migration dynamics in Tapachula, at the southern border of Mexico.

Mexico: Flow monitoring diagnosis and displacement tracking

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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(Available only in Spanish) This publication seeks to determine the state of integration of references to mobility in climate frameworks, and identifies a series of opportunities to make concrete progress in this area.

Human mobility in the climate agenda of the Americas: Needs…

Thematic Area: Migration, environment, and climate change
Language: English, Spanish
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As part of the Communication for Development (C4D) processes that IOM, partnering with local organizations, executes in communities in Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and Guatemala, a study was conducted to get to know these communities.

Study results - Communication for Development campaigns

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development, Media and Communications
Language: English
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IOM and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) present this directory which will be useful to migrant persons and families in transit, stranded, in return and reintegration, that will contribute to the fulfillment of the goals proposed in the 2030 Development Agenda and the…

Network of health establishments

Thematic Area: Migration Health
Language: Spanish
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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.

Life stories of returned migrants

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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