LIBRARY
In our Library, you can find publications containing our research, workguides and other materials generated by the Western Hemisphere Program and IOM. You will also find information materials about our tools and campaigns and reports on our work.
MICIC tool: Preparedness Training for Migrants. Facilitator's handbook.
This MICIC module aims to provide migrants with basic awareness on the main risks they may face in their respective host countries and locations, basic preparedness measures they can take to protect themselves, and key emergency-related sources of information and assistance in the host country.
Training Program: Protection & assistance to vulnerable migrants: profiles and reference mechanisms
Activity conducted on June 18, 2021, in the framework of the Regional Conference on Migration. "The Training Program: Protection & assistance to vulnerable migrants: profiles and reference mechanisms" was presented during this session.
Flow monitoring registry. Dajabón, Elías Piña, Jimaní. Round 2, May 2021.
This study provides an analysis of the trends in the mobility of people, between May 8 and 21, 2021, in four specific border posts: Dajabón, Comendador de Elías Piña, Jimaní and Pedernales. Four data collectors participated, one for each point to carry out the monitoring and counting of people.
Honduras-Baseline Assessment Of Migration Flows And Mobiity Tracking Within The Context Of COVID-19 Report #4 (March, 2021)
Data were collected through interviews conducted remotely with strategically selected key informants. Priority was given to information recorded by the National Directorate of Border Police Services (DNSPF), the Migrant House, the Returned Migrant Service Center (CAMR), and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), according to the information available each month for the dierent border crossing locations. The interviews were held in April 2021.
El Salvador-Baseline Assesment Of Migration Flows And Mobility Tracking Within The Context Of COVID-19, Report #4 (March,2021)
Data were collected through interviews conducted remotely with strategically selected key informants. Information provided by the General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners (DGME), the National Civil Police (PNC), and the International Health Oce (OSI) was used for each border crossing location. For the El Amatillo Border Crossing, information was also obtained from the Municipality of Pasaquina.
Guatemala-Baseline Assessment Of Migration Flows And Migrants Presence Within The Context Of COVID-19 Report- #3 (March, 2021))
Data were collected through interviews conducted remotely with strategically selected key informants. Estimates were received from the Red Cross, the Human Rights Ombudsman’s Oce, the Support Committee for Migrants, Refugees, and Tracking Victims, the Izabal Department Government, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Municipality of Libertad, the National Migrant Services Council, the Labor Ministry’s Department of Labor Mobility, and the Social Welfare Secretariat. The interviews were held in April 2021.
Flow monitoring registry. Dajabón, Elías Piña, Jimaní. Round 1, April-May 2021.
The data for this report were collected under the flow monitoring subcomponent of the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) methodology, with the objective of generating a preliminary impression of the characteristics of migrants, migration dynamics and the mobility of migrants at three border crossings.
Research study: recruitment practices for migrant workers in Central America and Mexico
Click to read the details of the study, being conducted between February and July 2021.
El Salvador-Baseline Assesment Of Migration Flows And Mobility Tracking Within The Context Of COVID-19, #3 (December 2020-February 2021)
The social and economic context in El Salvador has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To enter El Salvador, individuals must present certification of vaccination against COVID-19. The need to obtain a negative PCR-RT test in order to cross the different borders has been added to the other necessary requirements and has increased the cost of regular migration, with tests costing approximately $120 to $140. In addition, cases of scams involving false PCR-RT tests have been detected, resulting in many migrants being returned or rejected when trying to enter Salvadoran territory. This report used key informant methodology to characterize migration flows in El Salvador between December 2020 and February 2021.
Guatemala-Baseline Assessment Of Migration Flows And Migrants Presence Within The Context Of COVID-19 Report- #2 (December, 2020-February 2021)
The social and economic context in Honduras has been affected by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report used the key informant methodology to characterize migrant flows in Honduras, between December 2020 and February 2021.