Migration and Development Program ( M i DE ) Special Committee on Migration Issues October 2009.

Migration and Development Program (MiDE)

Special Committee on Migration Issues

October 2009

Permanent Council

MandatesMandates

Committee on Juridicaland Political Affairs

Committee on Juridicaland Political Affairs

Special Committeeon Migration Issues

Special Committeeon Migration Issues

Executive Secretariat for Integral DevelopmentMigration and Development Program

Inter-American Program for the Promotionand Protection of the

Human Rights of Migrants

Inter-American Program for the Promotionand Protection of the

Human Rights of Migrants Annual work planAnnual work plan

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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

To create systems to provide timely and standardized information on the migration phenomenon in the countries of the American Hemisphere.

To promote institutional capacity-building in migration-related areas.

To promote the protection of the human rights of migrants.

To identify and implement cooperation actions and the exchange of best practices by means of dialogue among states.

To facilitate the social, cultural, and economic inclusion of migrants.

To introduce migration as a crosscutting theme in the relevant activities carried out by the OAS.

Objectives

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Mission

To contribute to the formulation of public policy promoting equitable, safe, and orderly migration processes by means of systems providing precise and timely information, institutional capacity-building, cooperation actions, and the exchange of best practices.

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DEVELOPMENT-RELATED ACTIVITIES

Human rightsHuman rights

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

CAPACITY-BUILDING

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

GenderGenderOverseas

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Overseas voting

Trafficking in personsConsular protection

Trafficking in personsConsular protection

LegislationCooperation agreements

LegislationCooperation agreements

EmploymentEducation

Social securityDevelopment

EmploymentEducation

Social securityDevelopment

Migration as a crosscutting theme in the OAS

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Special Committee on Migration Issues

BACKGROUND

• On May 2, 2007, the Permanent Council convened a special meeting to analyze and discuss human migration flows and their impact on the member states.

• On October 24 of that year, the Permanent Council established the Special Committee on Migration Issues.

MANDATES

I. To develop a matrix of data for the comprehensive analysis of migration flows

II. To prepare a document compiling temporary worker programs in the OAS member states

III. To develop a database of existing regulations, policies, and programs on migration, and legal frameworks in the OAS member states

IV. To link OAS efforts with those of regional consultation processes in the migration area

V. To promote the exchange of experiences and best practices in the migration area among the countries of the region

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Mandate I: To develop a matrix of data for the comprehensive analysis of migration flows

Project:

Continuous Reporting System on Labour Migration for the Americas

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• A system for the generation of precise and timely information on labor migration, based on the SOPEMI [Systeme d’Observation Permanente sur les Migrations] model, created by the OECD for its Member countries.

• The information it compiles reflects migration trends, and changes in populations, and demographic profiles of migrants.

• The information comes from different national sources (censuses, surveys, administrative records, etc.) and the system organizes it in a consolidated and standardized manner.

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The strategy for gathering data, and compiling and generating information is to establish a network of correspondents at the national level supported by the institutions key to the production of information on migration (migration offices or institutes, national statistics offices, civil registry offices, etc.).

Each year, a request for standardized information is sent to the national correspondent institutions for the preparation of each country’s report.

The information is fed into the OAS migration database: SICREMI

How does SICREMI work?

SICREMI is only designed to compile and organize information. It is not designed to

generate its own primary statistics on migration.

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Project stages

Stage I. Pilot program

The countries proposed for the pilot stage are those with information systems that facilitate information organization and unification. Their emigration, transmigration, and immigration patterns are also typical of those phenomena in the region.

Stage IIGeneration and replication of the Program in ten countries.

Stage IIIInclusion of the remaining countries in the Program.

Currently, Brazil is the only country that has not confirmed its participation in the first stage of the project.

North America, Central America, and the Caribbean

1. Canada

2. Mexico

3. Belize

4. El Salvador

Andean countries5. Ecuador

6. Colombia

Southern Cone

7. Brazil

8. Argentina

9. Uruguay

10. Chile

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Mandate II:To prepare a document compiling temporary worker programs in the OAS

member states

Project:

Interactive map of temporary employment programs (MINPET)

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In conjunction with the Canadian International Development Agency

Interactive map of temporary employment programs(MINPET)

Objectives:

• To map temporary employment programs within and outside the Hemisphere in which Latin American and Caribbean nationals participate.

•To describe the terms and characteristics of recruitment programs and processes

•To identify the sociodemographic characteristics of temporary workers, such as gender, age, education, country of origin, etc.

•To exchange information on best practices

•To promote orderly, safe, and regular migration geared to labor market needs

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Mandate III:To develop a database of existing regulations, policies, and programs on migration, and legal

frameworks in the OAS member states

Project:

Database of legal frameworks, regulations, policies, and programs on migration

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In conjunction with the Canadian International Development Agency

Database of legal frameworks, regulations, policies, and programs on migration

• A system for the management of documentary legal information whose main objective will be to compile and organize national and international legislation, legal institutions, and public policy on migration in the Hemisphere.

I. Stage Compilation of existing national and international legislation, legal institutions, and public policy in the Hemisphere in the migration area, the organization thereof by subject in a database to facilitate consultation, and publication of the database on the web page of the Migration and Development Program.

II. Stage Update and utilization of the information available in the Migration Information System of the Americas (SIMA) to feed the database.

III. Stage Exchange of specific information with other organizations, institutions, and authorities specialized in this area.

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Mandate IV:To link OAS efforts with those of regional consultation processes in the

migration area

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In February 2009, a meeting of the CEAM was held to identify how to link OAS efforts with those of regional consultation processes in the migration area.

On April 23 and 24, 2009, the OAS participated in the Workshop on Temporary Worker Programs of the Regional Conference on Migration.

Mandate V:To promote the exchange of experiences and best practices in the migration

area among the countries of the region

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Consultation forums, seminars, and meetings

• Migration and development (December 1, 2008)

• Emigration and the brain drain (January 13, 2009)

• Migration and disaster situations (January 27, 2009)

• Seminar on care for migrant communities (February 10, 2009)

• Seminar on Consular Assistance and Protection: Scope and Exchange of Best Practices (March 10, 2009)

• Gender perspective on migration (April 1, 2009)

Thank you very much!