New Resources Available: the 2020 OBMICA Yearbook

We are very pleased to present the 2020 edition of the State of Migration Related to the Dominican Republic, a year marked by new challenges for human mobility, in which the pandemic has shaped the world, including the insular Caribbean.

 

Since 2011, OBMICA staff and its team of associated researchers have been monitoring migration dynamics both in the insular Caribbean and at the binational scale between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This effort resulted in the production of the State of Migration Related to the Dominican Republic (EDM). This yearbook of migration statistics is the research product, publication, and tangible result that best explains OBMICA's work model, centered on "research for action."

We conceive our work as a cycle in which the research produced returns to the field in order to influence and motivate the work of key actors involved in the development, implementation, and follow-up of public policies. It is a model that involves multiple actors, accompanies civil society, contributes to academic discussion, and in turn has the potential to shape evidence-based policymaking.

We are very pleased to present the 2020 edition of the State of Migration Related to the Dominican Republic, a year marked by new challenges for human mobility, in which the pandemic has shaped the world, including the insular Caribbean.

The pandemic shaped the world, including the insular Caribbean, in 2020, a challenging year for understanding and confronting new challenges for human mobility. International organizations such as UNHCR report growing forced displacement. Two researchers in Latin America describe the new panorama as follows:

"We are facing one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: an unprecedented wave of human displacement that shows no sign of decreasing even as it confronts a global-scale pandemic that has overburdened the global asylum system and all the other mechanisms of our international governance system. This offers us an opportunity to rethink the long-standing national-security-versus-human-rights dilemma with regard to migration, with special emphasis on generating different frameworks that allow states to manage migration in dialogue with others, using and respecting international instruments to ensure fairer and more humane processes for people who need to change their place of residence." (Cervantes, P.J., & Flores 2021).

 

 

This EDM edition is structured in four chapters:

1. Migration trends in the insular Caribbean
2. Dominican emigration: figures and trends
3. Immigration flows: figures and trends
4. The human rights situation of migrants and their descendants

The publication is available for online consultation and PDF download, and to make reading easier it features an attractive design, icons, and colors that help locate the contents. The team responsible for researching, writing, and editing this new edition was: Liliana Degiorgis, Masaya LLavaneras Blanco, Rafael Antonio Duran Rodriguez, Natalia Riveros, and Sebastian Gerardo Viala.

The yearbooks corresponding to 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 are available in the Publications section of our website, and physical copies can be obtained at our office. We hope that this research effort, carried out under the challenging conditions of the 2020-2021 pandemic, will serve as input both for migration policymakers and for civil society organizations that monitor and advocate for respect for the human rights of migrants and their families. Along with the distribution of this bulletin, our readers within the country would receive a physical copy of OBMICA's 2020 yearbook as a gift.

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State of Migration Related to the Dominican Republic (EDM) 2020

1. Migration trends in the insular Caribbean
2. Dominican emigration: figures and trends
3. Immigration flows: figures and trends
4. The human rights situation of migrants and their descendants