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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.

Historically, the Caribbean has been a region with extensive transit, internal, intraregional and external transit migration. Due to the constant movement of migratory flows in the area, Caribbean migrants faced the danger of being potentially exploited by smugglers.

Caribbean: model anti-trafficking legislation and…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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The recent increase in international South-North migration flows, due to the process of globalization, has sparked an interest in shedding light on its positive effects and contributions to development.

Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: English
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This publication analyzes the flows of Central American transmigrants in Mexico during the first years of the 21st century and constitutes an effort to improve the understanding of transit movements in Mexico.

A discreet, fleeting and anonymous life: transmigrant…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: Spanish
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Factors such as widespread poverty, the economic hardships in Latin America and the Caribbean and the tightening of the visa regime in United States have generated a rapid increase in migration flows to Europe, mainly of migrants with a high education level and high rates of labor force…

Migration from Latin America to Europe: Trends and policy…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: English
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This text constitutes an investigation carried out within the framework of the project "State of Migration Management in Central America: An Applied Research" and contains information concerning an assessment of the status of the migration administration of the Central American countries during…

State of Migration Management in Central America: An…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: Spanish
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This Forum was organized to follow up on the Irregular migration flows to/within the Americas from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean: Regional Report issued by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, within the framework of the Organization’s Permanent…

Climate change, migration, security and urbanization are interlinked issues in Northern Central America (NCA), and could be addressed more effectively in integrated ways.

Climate Change Migration and Security NCA

Thematic Area: Migration, environment, and climate change
Language: English
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The Forum was organized in follow-up to the presentation by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) of the "Report on Flows of Irregular Migrants from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean in the Americas" Luis Almagro, within the framework of the Permanent Council of the…

Outcome Report: High-Level Forum on Irregular Migration…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Language: Spanish
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