This preliminary document is a summary of one of the inputs that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is providing as a contribution to the Global Compact for Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration (GMP), to be agreed in 2018, as envisaged in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2016. It is part of the generation of information and updated knowledge entrusted to ECLAC on migration processes in the three subregions of Latin America and the Caribbean: Mexico and Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

This document is available in Spanish.