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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.

Reintegration assistance is provided to help you as an AVRR participant to re-establish yourself in your home country and restore family and community linkages. Reintegration support aims at strengthening your self-sufficiency and marking your return more sustainable.

Reintegration Guide for Returnees

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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This book includes a diagnosis of migration and kidnapping in Chiapas, the materials of the information campaign focused on migrants in transit and a manual of procedures for detection, channelling and assistance to migrants who are victims of kidnapping.

Prevention of kidnappings of migrants in transit through…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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If you are failed refugee claimant, IOM can help you with your voluntary return to your home country through the Assisted Voluntary Return & Reintegration pilot programme implemented within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) as of 29 June 2012.

The Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Pilot (AVRR)

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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Migration flows between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and between the European Union (EU) are not new. The first dates from the late 15th century mainly in a north-south direction, that is, from Europe to the Americas.

Migration routes and dynamics between the countries of…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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The objective of this document is to prepare a diagnosis of the situation of the production of migration data in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, as well as in each of the four subregions and the countries that compose them, this is: 1. Mercosur, Chile and Venezuela; 2.

Rapid assessment of data collection structures in the area…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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In human history, people have always migrated to cope with environmental changes. Now more than ever, the environment, the damaging effects of climate change, and its links to migration have garnered public attention.

Slowy but Surely: The Environment, Climate Change and…

Thematic Area: Migration, environment, and climate change
Language: English
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Research on human trafficking, especially for the purpose of labour exploitation, is more important than ever.

Human trafficking for labour exploitation in Central…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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The study delves into the social and labor characteristics of south-south labor migrations that occur in Central America and the Dominican Republic, with special emphasis on migratory flows between Central American countries.

Research on Intraregional Migratory Labour Flows. Report of…

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish
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