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Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, including literature reviews, national surveys and key informant interviews, this exploratory research points to some level of internal and/or external human trafficking in all the countries studied. Victims of human trafficking in the... Read More
International Migration is a refereed bimonthly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of... Read More
The Immigration and Border Management (IBM) programme has evolved steadily in recent years in response to the need for innovative solutions to manage ever-increasing migration flows. The IBM team – a core group of specialists in both Headquarters and strategic locations in the Field – is committed... Read More
After the dissolution of the Former Soviet Union, the area of the current 12 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) became a widely used corridor for irregular migration and trafficking in human beings, both from within and outside the region. Lack of relevant legislation and needed... Read More
Migration Health is a regional newsletter highlighting how IOM and partners are making a difference to the lives of migrants and mobile populations across Africa and the Middle East. Packed with news features, interviews, photo galleries and IOM’s latest research, the newsletter underpins the... Read More
The Colombia Migration Profile illustrates the current status of migration in this country. Colombia is a multicultural country with a projected population for 2010 of 45,508,208 inhabitants, of which 49.37 per cent are male and 50.63 per cent are female. In Colombia, migration flows from the... Read More
The Guide to Enhancing Migration Data in West and Central Africa has been developed in the framework of the project Migration in West and Central Africa: National Profiles for Strategic Policy Development, implemented by IOM in 2008-2010 with the financial support of the European Commission, the... Read More
Migration Policy Practice is a bimonthly journal published jointly by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Eurasylum Ltd. It contributes articles by public officials and civil society worldwide working in the field of migration policy.
This volume is intended to be the first of an annual series, which will aim to provide the reader with regularly updated qualitative assessments on the changing nature and dynamics of environmental migration throughout the world. The idea for it stemmed from the course «Environment and Migration»,... Read More
Migration Initiatives 2012 outlines IOM’s annual initiatives worldwide for which the Organization is seeking financial support so as to continue meeting the priority needs of migrants, Member and Observer States and other partners. The funding requirements outlined in this document total roughly... Read More
Migration brings substantial benefits to destination countries by easing labour shortages, for instance in such activities as childcare or house cleaning, low skilled jobs in the underground economy, but also jobs in industries requiring high skills and specialist knowledge. Migrants can contribute... Read More
Migration for Development in Africa - Mobilizing the African Diasporas for the Development of Africa
Migration Initiatives 2008 outlines IOM’s planned activities for which funding is required in the coming year. Since the publication of last year’s edition, new migration challenges have arisen in various areas of IOM operations.
Migration in the Americas is a semi-annual newsletter that provides insight to IOM activities in the Western Hemisphere. This publication includes articles written in both English and Spanish.
Migration in the Americas July 2008 edition includes articles from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Haiti,... Read More
IOM´s Caribbean Counter-Trafficking Model Legislation and Explanatory Guidelines is a resource for stakeholders in government and civil society wishing to improve domestic legislation and policy to address the crime of trafficking in persons in the Caribbean.
Le phénomène de la traite des êtres humains affecte pratiquement tous les pays dans le monde. En Afrique de l'Est, les victimes de la traite souffrent d'abus physiques et émotionnels, ainsi que de viol, de menaces contre leur personne et leur famille et parfois de menaces de mort.
The human trafficking phenomenon affects virtually every country in the world. In East Africa, victims of human trafficking suffer physical and emotional abuse, rape, threats against themselves and their families and sometimes death. Although women and children have been identified as the main... Read More
Uruguay se constituyó hasta mediados del siglo XX en un país de inmigración, recibiendo un aporte fundamental de los flujos migratorios de ultramar cuyos impactos se evidenciaron en sus estructuras demográficas, sociales y culturales. En la segunda mitad del siglo XX, las crisis económicas,... Read More
Hacia fines del siglo XIX, Paraguay comienza a perfilarse como un país expulsor de población, principalmente a la Argentina.
International Migration is a refereed bimonthly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of... Read More
This volume is the first in a new Springer series to examine one of humanity’s most pressing concerns: global migration and its implications for development. As population mobility grows in an ever more crowded world, the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) has emerged as the most... Read More
Human trafficking has become a global business, reaping huge profits for traffickers and organized crime syndicates, generating massive human rights violations, and causing serious problems for governments. Despite the magnitude of the problem, however, it has only recently seized policy makers’... Read More
International Migration is a refereed bimonthly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of... Read More
Históricamente, Bolivia es un país con saldo migratorio negativo. Factores estructurales inciden en los bajos niveles de desarrollo humano de la población, explicando este carácter emigratorio del país. En la actualidad, más de 700 mil bolivianos residen en el exterior, representando un 6,8% de la... Read More
El estudio «Rutas y dinámicas migratorias entre los países de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), y entre ALC y la Unión Europea» pretende brindar los elementos cuantitativos y cualitativos necesarios para nutrir el debate entre los gobiernos ALC y UE así como entre las dos regiones. Para ello, este... Read More
El Perfil Migratorio del Ecuador fue elaborado en el año 2008 por la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM Misión Ecuador). El trabajo que se presenta a continuación es una actualización del Perfil Migratorio original del 2008. Este documento tiene la finalidad de reunir información... Read More
If you have travelled in Haiti and you are reading this book, there is a very good chance you might recognize that some of the communities you visited were impacted by one or more of the 2,594 projects implemented through the PREPEP (Programme de Révitalisation et de Promotion de l’Entente et de la... Read More
En este documento se recoge un exitoso modelo desarrollado en Bogotá para la reintegración social y económica de 80 personas desmovilizadas de grupos armados ilegales.
Además de los factores de éxito y la experiencia del proyecto a través del cual se desarrolló el modelo, en el libro se plasma las... Read More
Les sociétés africaines sont encore trop souvent marquees par les clivages ethniques et les comportements guerriers, dont on sait à quel point ils obèrent les chances de réussite des efforts entrepris par les politiques pour parvenir à un accord durable. La part prise par les femmes dans les... Read More
The present document gives a first overview of organizations in Africa dealing with migrant and mobile populations in the context of HIV/AIDS. It briefly describes the methods used for gathering data, then gives a general description of the programmes listed and the major "lessons learned" by the... Read More
Migration and International Legal Norms provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the source and scope of international law on migration. Chapters written by experts from around the world explore international norms on state authority to regulate migration, freedom of movement, forced... Read More
Through an analysis of the existing literature and national policies, interviews with key informants, and a survey of target mobile populations identified as potentially vulnerable, the study revealed the following:
The Berne Initiative Process was launched by the government of Switzerland in 2001. The International Agenda for Migration Management is a product of the Berne Initiative Process designed to assist government migration practitioners in developing effective measures for the management of migration.... Read More
This volume, jointly produced by the IOM and the Joint United National Programme on HIV/AIDS, reviews HIV-related risks and programmes for a category of worker who moves from place to place for professional reasons, truckers. It focuses on a region not well covered by other reviews, West Africa,... Read More
Describe el problema de la trata de personas y sus respetivas particularidades en Colombia, Estados Unidos y República Dominicana. Además, busca establecer los desarrollos legislativos y las respuestas institucionales de cada Estado en su lucha contra este delito. Los tres países presentan... Read More
El libro Dimensiones de la Trata de Personas en Colombia es un primer esfuerzo conjunto de tres instituciones - el Programa de Prevención, Reintegración y Asistencia para las Víctimas de la Trata de Personas en Colombia de la OIM; el área contra la Trata de Personas del DAS/INTERPOL; y el Grupo... Read More
The close relationship between economic development and migration has been recognized for some time. In recent years, however, there has been a shift in thinking about the relationship between migration and development. Traditionally, migration was seen as a problem with negative implications for... Read More
La guía tiene como propósito presentar una introducción en torno a tres ejes fundamentales al momento de abordar la problemática de la trata de personas: se presentan los valores y conceptos fundamentales de la trata de personas, así como las herramientas de comunicación para realizar... Read More
This publication is a compilation of technical papers from independent experts who participated in the two-day expert group meeting entitled “Female Migrants – Bridging the gaps throughout the life cycle,” in May, 2006 in New York. Jointly organized by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and IOM, this... Read More
Este libro es uno de los resultados del proyecto “Difusión y Fortalecimiento para Grupos Beta y Programa Paisano como ejemplos de alianzas exitosas en beneficio de los y las migrantes”, formulado e instrumentado por la Oficina de la OIM en México y financiado por el Fondo de la OIM para el... Read More
This book is one of the outcomes of the Dissemination and Strengthening Project for Grupos Beta and Programa Paisano as Examples of Successful Partnerships Benefiting Migrants, which was put together and implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Mexico, and financed by... Read More
This book encapsulates the law of international migration by examining developments first addressed in the volume on Migration and International Legal Norms (edited by T.A. Aleinikoff and V. Chetail; T.M.C. Asser Press, 2003) and by discussing wholly new themes.
If you believe that States have complete discretion in handling migration matters and that migrants are not protected under international law, read this book! You will be amazed by the wealth of international instruments, treaties, standards and principles existing in international law. Rights and... Read More
The State of Environmental Migration 2011 is the second of an annual series, which aims to provide the reader with regularly-updated assessments on the changing nature and dynamics of environmental migration throughout the world. Written by students of the Paris School of International Affairs (... Read More
International Migration is a refereed quarterly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of... Read More
International Migration is a refereed bimonthly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of... Read More
The research presented in this volume was directed by Nina Nyberg Sorensen and is based on case studies from around the world to examine how migration influences development. The studies reveal that it is seldom the simple act of migrating, but rather the conditions under which migration takes... Read More
Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive global and systemic forms of human rights violations that exist today. Even though many migrant women do not encounter violence and benefit from migration, for some of the 105 million international migrant women worldwide, violence and... Read More
International Migration is a refereed bimonthly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of... Read More
This 12th issue contains a dual focus: First, we explore the role of the private sector in combatting trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of slavery. To this end, we offer a brief overview of the evolution of the notion of corporate social responsibility: what are its origins; why... Read More