Expert group meeting: International Migration and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Ciu

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Expert group meetingInternational Migration and
Development in Latin America and the
CaribbeanCiudad de México 30/11 2/12
2005Karoline Schmid
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE
CARIBBEAN (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for
the Caribbean Caribbean Development and
Cooperation Committee (CDCC)
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Overview

• Migration in the Caribbean what do we know?
• Challenges and responses
• Country perspectives
• Summary recommendations.

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What do we know?

• General remarks on migration data
• No globally established data collection
  mechanisms
• No consensus on definitions and
• Incompatibility of data from different sources.
• Intra-regional movements stock data (see table
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Challenges

• Lack of timely quality data access to
  information
• Brain-drain (health education)
• Return-migration retirees deportations
• Trafficking of humans human rights
• Migration monitoring management?
• Globalization regional integration - Caribbean
  identity?
• How to benefit from migration remittances,
  brain-gain networks, etc.?

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responses

• Data collection migration statistics
• Population projection model for SIDS (Aruba)
• ILO Caribbean Rapid Assessment of labor
  movements
• IOM ECLAC-POS collaboration on migration data
  collection capacity building in the Caribbean.

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responses contd

• Migration management brain-drain
• RNB-CARICOM-PAHO/CPC-Commonwealth Secretariat
  managed migration for nurses
• CARICOM/CSME free movement of the skilled
  skills database
• Trafficking of humans human rights
• IOM Caribbean Counter Trafficking Initiative.

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Country perspectives

• Aruba study on immigration its
  socio-demographic impact
• Haiti call for intra-Caribbean partnership
• Trinidad Tobago Deportees in Trinidad
  Tobago.

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Summary recommendations

• Need to establish clearinghouse to share
  research, data and information on migration
• Increase benefit from migration remittances,
  brain-gain, role of Diaspora, returning retirees
• Strengthen implementation of existing policies
  programs
• Address conditions of deportees at sending
  integration in receiving countries
• Continue to address the soft impacts of
  regional integration globalization.

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• THANK YOU VERY MUCH
• FOR YOUR ATTENTION!