As Latin American and Caribbean countries face a dual challenge—managing large-scale Venezuelan arrivals alongside the COVID pandemic—reliable data on the characteristics of newcomers are essential to policymaking. This MPI-IOM fact sheet offers a profile of refugees and migrants in 11 countries in the region, including their demographics, labor market participation, remittance sending, access to health care, trip details, and intention to return to Venezuela. For more than a century, Haiti was considered a prime destination for migrants from the United States and around the world. In the wake of the Haitian Revolution, Haiti marketed itself to freed slaves and others as a n island haven where they could break free from the strictures of the United States and a global system of slavery. That changed in t he 20th c entury. Now, there are roughly 1. Libya was once a prized destination for workers from around the world. Following Libya’s deal with Italy to detain and return migrants caught at sea—which was renewed in February —migrants became trapped in an unstable country, facing harrowing realities, as this article explores. Now into its fourth year, the Trump administration has reshaped the U.
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