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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.

Haiti’s vulnerability to almost all kinds of environmental changes, as well as the high mobility of its migratory flows, has led the country to be one of the first in Central America and the Caribbean, in recognizing the link between the environment and internal migration through its migration…

Challenges and policies: Migration, Environment and Climate…

Thematic Area: Migration, environment, and climate change
Language: French
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Haiti is characterized as a predominantly expelling country. Natural disasters, socio-economic problems and political instability are some of the factors that have contributed to increased internal migration and emigration of the Haitian population.

Migration Profile of Haiti 2015

Thematic Area: Migration Data, Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: French
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The Protocol on Detection, Assistance and Reference of Trafficked Children and Adolescents is part of the activities established in the National Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrants (2009-2014) prepared by the Inter-Agency Commission to Combat Trafficking…

Protocol for the detection, assistance and referral of…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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This summary provides an overview of IOM's activities through key statistics produced by the Organization, as an update to the overview contained in the World Migration Report 2011, where statistics for the period 2001–2010 were reported.

Summary of IOM Statistics 2011-2015

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal, Migration Data
Language: English
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This document was prepared on the basis of the results of the Workshop "Integration, Return and Reintegration of Migrants" (September, 2013), in San José, Costa Rica by the Regional Conference on Migration.

Guiding Principles for the Elaboration of Migration…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal, Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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The growing visibility, presence and public participation of the indigenous Ngabe and Buglé have generated significant transformations in the economic, socio-cultural and political-institutional spheres of Costa Rican and Panamanian society.

The labor journey of the Ngabe and Buglé population of…

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish
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The purpose of this Protocol is to establish a reference mechanism to safely and coordinately address assistance to survivors of internal and international trafficking, optimizing resources and efforts.

Protocol for identification, assistance and reintegration…

Thematic Area:
Language: English, Spanish
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This document is a summary of the main findings from a series of studies conducted during 2013 and 2014 in relation to migration of Haitians heading to Brazil. Since 2010, there has been an increase in the number of Haitian migrants heading to the United States, France and Canada.

Haitian Migration to Brazil: Characteristics, Opportunities…

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish
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