OBMICA Bulletin December 2019
We close the year with a special edition and invite readers to enjoy the December 2019 OBMICA bulletin. As always, the content is available in PDF form or through the article links included below.
We close the year with a special edition and invite readers to enjoy the December 2019 OBMICA bulletin. As always, you can access the content in PDF format or follow the links below to the published articles. DOWNLOAD HERE.
The cover image of this bulletin also serves as the cover of our Migration Policy Brief titled Forced Migration: Land Deportations from the Dominican Republic to the Republic of Haiti, available on the OBMICA website at www.obmica.org.
Human trafficking under scrutiny. During the last quarter of 2019, numerous activities and coordination efforts focused on human trafficking. OBMICA participated in the Grupo Corripio breakfast alongside representatives of other civil society organizations. Read more...
Profiles of the Haitian diaspora in the Caribbean #2: The French Overseas Territories. Our associate researcher Charlotte Wiener describes the lack of rights protection affecting Haitian migrants living in the French Overseas Territories. This is the second article in the series on the Haitian diaspora. Read more...
The Windrush Scandal: Colonial legacy collides with twenty-first-century immigration control. Continuing the diaspora theme, Jean Pierre Murray, OBMICA associate researcher based in Jamaica, discusses the impact of increasingly restrictive migration policies on minority groups in the United Kingdom. These harsh measures pose an ongoing threat of uprooting migrants who have lived there for more than forty years. Read more...
OBMICA shares the results of its research Children on the Move at the Border: During October, November, and December, OBMICA held four workshops to share the findings of its study on unaccompanied and mobile children and adolescents between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, conducted with UNICEF technical support and European Union funding (2018/398-626). Read more...
State of Migration 2018. Finally, Kamilah Morain highlights four key points from our publication on the state of migration concerning the Dominican Republic for 2018. The yearbook circulated in January 2020 and is available to the academic community, civil society, government actors, and all interested readers. A PDF version is available for download. Read more...