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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.

Main findings of the survey in Central America and Mexico, June 2020. This survey has the objective of generating data in order to analyze the repercussions of COVID-19 for this population and guide the response of the many actors involved in the pandemic response, migration management, and…

Effects of COVID-19 on migrants

Thematic Area: Migration Health
Language: English
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This document represents an effort made by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to introduce tools for public policy makers as well as those responsible for programs addressing people smuggling and trafficking in persons.

Recommendations for Strengthening the Regional Strategy…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
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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In Panama, the DTM was activated in 2019, in response to the irregular arrival of groups of extraregional migrants from the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, through the Darién National Park on the border with Colombia.

Panama - Analysis of Surveys on Monitoring Flows of Extra-…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
Date: