This document summarizes one of the inputs that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) delivers as a contribution to the Global Compact for Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration (GCM), to be agreed upon in 2018, as provided by the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, approved by the United Nations General Assembly in September, 2016. It is part of the task entrusted to ECLAC to generate information and updated knowledge on migration processes in the three sub-regions of Latin America and the Caribbean: Mexico and Central America, South America and the Caribbean.