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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 number of extraregional migrants in the Americas, both those who use regular means of entry and those who use irregular forms of migration, has been increasing in recent years.

Extraregional Migration in The Americas: Profiles,…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: English, Spanish
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Illustrated children's book that recounts the migratory journey of the raggae band Talawa.

The Tale of the Lion and the Coyote

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English, Spanish
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The guide explains the step by step activities to be carried out in the days of psychosocial care groups. It is a supplementary document to the "Handbook for facilitators of psychosocial care groups to promote the reintegration of returnees at the community level".

Guide to activities and dynamics for psychosocial care…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance, Migration Health
Language: Spanish
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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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