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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 current migratory reality in the Mesoamerican region is characterized by its magnitude and its notable contribution to the development of the countries in the area, as well as by the prevalence of labour migration within the migratory flows originating in the region.

Migrating in the crisis

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish
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This publication responds to the request of some IOM member states of having a global document that compiles integration policies and practices.

Compendium of Migrant Integration Policies and Practices

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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In Mexico, various socio-economic and cultural factors, as well as certain geographical conditions and the very nature of the migration process, accentuate the risks of migrant populations to human trafficking in that country.

Trafficking in persons in Mexico: diagnosis of assistance…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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Research on human trafficking, especially for the purpose of labour exploitation, is more important than ever.

Haman trafficking for labour exploitation in Central…

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development, Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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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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This document was prepared as a conceptual framework for the Second Meeting of the Ibero-American Forum on Migration and Development in San Salvador during 2010 and analyses the impact of the 2008 international economic crisis on progress and stagnation in migration legislation, the lack of…

Impacts of the economic crisis on migration and development…

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish
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The Central American transmigration through Mexico began to generate interest during the last decades of the 20th century.

Central American migrant children and adolescents in…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
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Photographs from adolescents from the competicion "Zoom in on migration and development"

What we see

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: English
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