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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.

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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Human trafficking is a serious violation of human rights. It constitutes an insurmountable problem due to the fact that many of the cases of trafficking in persons are never reported.

Global Phenomenon, Invisible Cases: Human Trafficking in…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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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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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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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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This paper provides a comparative study carried out in Austria, Belgium, Italy and the United States.

Rights, residence, rehabilitation: a comparative study…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: English
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The lack of statistical data regarding counter trafficking in the Caribbean region and the absence of detailed information related to this crime, have motived to explore the main tendencies of this phenomena in Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia, Suriname and…

Exploratory assessment of trafficking in persons in the…

Thematic Area: Migration Data
Language: English
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