Bulletin, June 2011
Introduction of OBMICA; research on migrant women's rights; the history of environmental degradation in the transboundary park; research on violence against migrant women; publications; the annual IOM retreat; a UNESCO event in Paris; and a keynote by Wilfredo Lozano. Through this first bulletin of 2011, OBMICA launches a new tool for sharing its work and current migration debates.
Through this first news bulletin of 2011, the Caribbean Migration Observatory (OBMICA) launches a new tool for disseminating its work and current debates on migration.
- Introduction of OBMICA.
- Feedback from the three-year research project: advancing migrant women's rights in intraregional migration.
- Presentation by Dr. Tim Brothers on the history of environmental degradation in the Nalga de Maco Transboundary National Park and its surroundings.
- Fieldwork for a qualitative study on violence against migrant women (Elias Pina/Belladere).
- OBMICA publications: two articles on post-earthquake Haitian migration and a book chapter on migrant domestic workers.
- Facilitation as part of the IOM annual retreat in Haiti.
- OBMICA participation in a UNESCO event in Paris.
- Keynote address by Wilfredo Lozano at the Lat Crit Conference, Santo Domingo.
- Dissemination in 2011 of projects supported by the World Bank in 2010.