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Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Driving Migrant Inclusion through Social Innovation: Lessons for Cities in a Pandemic

This MPI Europe-International Organization for Migration (IOM) report explores key lessons cities can draw from the social innovation that accompanied the 2015–16 arrivals to help them weather the challenges brought by the pandemic.

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01 September 2020

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Migration Health In The Sustainable Development Goals

This information sheet provides an overview of the connections between migration health and the different sustainable development goals, as well as selected examples of IOM activities towards the SDGs.

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01 September 2020

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Policy Brief: The Global Compact for Migration (GCM): Well Governed Migration as an Essential Element of Effective COVID-19 Response

The present document outlines the applicability of the Global Compact in preventing and responding to COVID-19, for States, the UN system and other stakeholders, highlighting instances of promising practices as useful models to draw from.

Date of publication:

21 August 2020

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UN Network on Migration

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Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI)

Remittances and Financial Inclusion: “Sending Money Home” in the COVID Era

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, many migrants were already part of marginalized and vulnerable groups experiencing economic hardships in their countries of origin and host communities. Lockdowns and business closures have exacerbated the precarious nature of their livelihoods.

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18 August 2020

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Durable solutions for indigenous migrants and refugees in the context of the Venezuelan flow in Brazil

This report updates and qualifies the discussion on the migration of indigenous people from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the Federative Republic of Brazil.

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12 August 2020

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Humanitarian Border Management

IOM’s Immigration and Border Management (IBM) Division works closely with the Migration Health Division (MHD) and other departments to provide immediate as well as mid- and long-term technical assistance for the immigration, border and consular officials of concerned Member States in order to help...

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04 August 2020

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Time for a reset: Implications for child migration policies arising from COVID-19

This paper is part of a series of short “think pieces” by IOM’s Migration Research High Level Advisers on the potential changes, impacts and implications for migration and mobility arising from COVID-19.

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01 August 2020

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Analysis

Integrating Migration into COVID-19 Socio-economic Response: A Toolkit for Development Partners

This Toolkit provides information and tools for development partners to integrate migration – in all its forms – into development‐centred plans, programmes and projects linked to COVID‑19 socio‐economic response.

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01 August 2020

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IOM Migration Health Assessment Programmes (HAP) – Pre-Migration Health Activities

This information sheet gives an overview over the different pre-migration health activities IOM provides, as well as other HAP services. Further HAP information sheets exist also on vaccination services and response to COVID-19.

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01 August 2020

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Cross Border Human Mobility Amid and After COVID-19

The paper sets out initial findings and scenarios regarding the future of cross-border human mobility, including measures that will be needed to ensure that no person, or country, is left behind.

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21 July 2020

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Countering Xenophobia and Stigma to foster Social Cohesion in the COVID-19 Response and Recovery

This serves as an issue brief on how to tackle potentially xenophobia and stigma.

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14 July 2020

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Policy Brief: COVID-19 and People on the Move

The COVID-19 crisis presents us with an opportunity to reimagine human mobility for the benefit of all while advancing our central commitment of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind. In the pursuit of this objective, this Policy Brief offers four basic tenets to guide our collective response.

Date of publication:

01 July 2020

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United Nations (UN)

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West And Central Africa — Regional Mobility Mapping (June 2020)

The West and Central Africa Mobility Mapping report is a compilation of maps showing various mobility trends and mobility factors for movements to and from the West and central Africa region (forced displacement, transhumance, labour movements, etc.).

Date of publication:

30 June 2020

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International Labour Organization (ILO)

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Analysis

Social Protection Spotlight COVID-19: Social protection for migrant workers: A necessary response to the COVID-19 crisis (2020)

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major public health challenge and is having serious economic and social impacts on origin, transit and destination countries, as well as on migrant workers and their families and on businesses and their operations.

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24 June 2020

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International Labour Organization (ILO)

Guidelines for Skills Modules in Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements

Bilateral labour migration agreements (BLMAs) have become important tools for facilitating the governance of labour migration. The present guidelines are part of the ILO effort in this area and focus on the specific inclusion of skills in BLMAs.

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22 June 2020

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International Labour Organization (ILO)

How to Facilitate the Recognition of Skills of Migrant Workers

This second edition of the guide includes recent developments in enhancing the migration services offered by various employment services providers. Its purpose is to keep this useful tool up to date and reflect new and emerging needs, as well as good practices, including in the COVID-19 context.

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22 June 2020

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UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

Impact of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s Migrants and Remittances

The socio-economic importance of the money sent home by Myanmar’s migrants working abroad cannot be overstated. Remittances serve to diversify and smoothen household income and are particularly critical to strengthening the financial resilience of women and rural populations.

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15 June 2020

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Other

No Social Exclusion in 'Social' Distancing: Leaving no Migrants Behind in the COVID-19 Response

This issue explores the multi-dimensional risks of social exclusion caused by inequities faced by different migrant groups in the COVID-19 response. While measures to combat the virus apply to all, not all migrant groups have the same set of resources and capacities to comply with the rules.

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13 June 2020

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