Positioning Migration within OBMEC and a Global Compact
March 15, 2017. The Haitian-Dominican university consortium OBMEC, led by Quisqueya University in Port-au-Prince and supported by the European Union, established a Binational Observatory on Migration, Education, Environment, and Trade.
The Haitian-Dominican university consortium OBMEC established a binational observatory on migration, education, environment, and trade. This article explains how its migration team developed an interdisciplinary and binational analysis of Haitian-Dominican migration, including labour, rights, repatriations, regularization, and gender.
It also connects this work to the international process launched in 2016 toward a global compact for safe, regular, and orderly migration.