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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.

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.

Guidelines for the care and protection of women in the…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance, Gender and migration
Language: Spanish
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This document summarizes the results of the research that was carried out in Mexico, based on an in-depth analysis of the components of labour market information systems, including the diversity of views of different actors, both governments and workers' organizations and employers'…

Labour market information systems: Mexico report

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish
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Evidence-based migration policies are a fundamental component of good migration governance. However, several recent studies and assessments review the multiple challenges to ensure the availability of up-to-date data and information and to understand the reality of migrations in the region.

Characteristics of the process for gathering and using…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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The document makes available to professionals who provide mental health services, both to the returnees directly and to the population in which they are integrated, fundamental knowledge of the theoretical context, policy and action to be taken to contribute effectively to the reintegration of…

Inter-institutional coordination mechanisms for mental…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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This report provides a summary of the key takeaways from monitoring missions by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Regional Migration Capacity-Building Programs (RMCBPs) between May 2018 and July 2019.

PRM Funded Regional Migration Capacity-Building Programs -…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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This Psychosocial Intervention Strategy is part of the pilot project "Prevention and Reintegration of Adolescents at Risk or in Conflict with the Law in the Northern Caribbean Coast Region of Nicaragua. RACCN".

Strategy for psycho-social intervention with adolescents…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance, Migration Health
Language: Spanish
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The different stages of the migration process bring specific risk factors that can generate psychosocial vulnerabilities that, when combined with other elements of risk such as pre-existing psychological, emotional and social vulnerabilities, can affect the well-being of migrants, their families…

Guide for psychosocial care for migrants in Mesoamerica

Thematic Area: Migration Health
Language: English, Spanish
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(Available only in SPANISH) This directory lists the houses and shelters available to assist migrants in Mexico.

Directory of Homes and Shelters for Migrants 2018

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish, English
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