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Dear John, I am pleased to share with you the first edition of our bimonthly newsletter highlighting the latest resources and analysis available on MPI’s Latin America and the Caribbean Migration Portal. The Portal is the first comprehensive, curated online resource for data, research, and analysis on immigration policy in the region. This site is particularly relevant as Latin American and Caribbean countries have dealt with new and sometimes unprecedented migration flows in the past several years—including the mass exodus of Venezuelans to countries throughout the region and large migration flows from Central American countries to Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama. While some Latin American and Caribbean countries have long traditions of labor migration, mixed migration flows on the current scale are new and have prompted a period of rapid and often innovative policy development. And the onset of a pandemic has spurred policymakers to enter a new period of accelerated policy formation, at the intersection of immigration, public health, and social welfare. This Portal aims to be a resource to anyone involved in evidence-based policymaking: government officials, international organizations, advocacy groups, service providers, researchers, and others. It features key immigration statistics, links to new laws and policies from around the region, and a selection of research reports by researchers and service providers on migration issues. Experts from around the region and from MPI also offer original analysis on current developments in our Insights series. At a moment when countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are building the foundations of new migration policies in the region, it is more important than ever that those participating have access to timely and trustworthy research and to information on creative practices and initiatives. Content on the Portal is updated weekly, with resources in both English and Spanish. If you would like to suggest resources for inclusion on the Portal, please contact Andrea Tanco ([email protected]) and/or Jessica Bolter ([email protected]). To access the Portal, please visit www.migrationportal.org, and sign up for updates here. And please feel free to share widely! Best regards, Andrew Selee, PhD
The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank in Washington, D.C. dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national and international levels. For more on MPI, please visit www.migrationpolicy.org.
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