Venezuelans in Brazil: integration with labour market and access to social safety nets

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Category: Refugees and Migrants

• Author: ACNUR
• Publication Date: 2020

This note focuses on understanding the impact of the interiorization programme on the livelihoods and employment prospects of Venezuelans who have opted to relocate from Roraima state to other federal units between April 2018 and December 2019. Brazil's legal framework allows for the inclusion of Venezuelans, regardless of their status, to work and access education and social protection services and so this note uses government administrative records to monitor the relocated Venezuelan population’s inclusion in Brazil’s labour market, education and social protection systems.

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Missing Migrants Project Global Data Overview, January 2022 - December 2022

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Category: Refugees and Migrants

• Author: MISSING MIGRANTS PROJECT
• Publication Date: January 2022 - December 2022

In 2022, IOM’s Missing Migrants Project documented the deaths of 6,876 people during migration worldwide, an increase compared to the 6,083 recorded in 2021 and the highest death toll recorded since 2016. In total, the Missing Migrants Project (MMP) has recorded 54,125 deaths and disappearances on migration routes since data collection began in 2014, though it is likely that many more lives are lost and remain undocumented. This brief marks an official release of the MMP 2022 datasets disaggregated by cause of death, country of origin, sex, and age. These global trends are complemented by a methodological note on data challenges and possible next steps. For in-depth analysis of all regions, see separate publications providing regional overviews for Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia hosted at missingmigrants.iom.int/publications.

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Supporting healthcare access for refugees and migrants

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Category: Refugees and Migrants

• Author: The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• Publication Date: 2023

For a host country, managing a large influx of refugees and migrants is a complex task that requires strong political commitment, well-established policies, and structures in place. If giving incoming populations a home, protection, and opportunities for an income is essential, access to healthcare for displaced populations is equally a key human right. The release on Jan 25, 2023, of the WHO Refugee and Migrant Health Toolkit was aimed at helping individual countries to access all available guidelines and tools to develop policies to integrate migrants and refugees in their health system. Such integration is essential for the achievement of the goals of the Global action plan on promoting the health of refugees and migrants, 2019–2023, that mandates provision of healthcare to anyone independently from nationality.

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Intersections between gender approaches, migration and health in Latin America and the Caribbean: a discussion based on a scoping review

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Category: Refugees and Migrants

• Author: Baltica Cabieses a b h , Benelli Velázquez c h , Alice Blukacz a , Sofia Farante d h , Ietza Bojórquez e h , Edward Mezones-Holguín f g
• Publication Date: December 2024

Gender is a sociocultural construct that assigns forms of behaviour, power, and roles to individuals based on their sexual differentiation. There are multiple gender approaches that help distinguish risks, health conditions and behaviours related to the body, health-disease processes, and differential opportunities to access health care. Based on a scoping review of scientific and grey literature in LAC, we discuss existing understandings of international migrants’ health in LAC with a focus on gender approaches. Our discussion covers the following seven dimensions: gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health, barriers to healthcare services, and emerging patterns of health and healthcare among men and LGBTIQA+. The evidence indicates the urgent need to adopt gender approaches when addressing migrant and refugee health in LAC. Including gender approaches into ongoing strategies for promoting and protecting the health and rights of migrants and refugees is a pending challenge in the region.

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