El Salvador: Information available on the activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 1987-1990
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 January 1991 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | SLV7459 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, El Salvador: Information available on the activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 1987-1990, 1 January 1991, SLV7459, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6abe770.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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As indicated in your request and the attached page of The Europa World Year Book 1990, the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (ICM) changed its name to International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 1989.
Please find attached three reports which describe the IOM and outline its activities, with some specific references to its projects in Latin America. One source (ICM 1988, p. 27) mentions a joint Argentina/El Salvador project for the resettlement of 200 Salvadorean "agricultural families" in the Argentine provinces of Jujuy and Salta, prepared by the IOM (formerly known as ICM) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The source, however, gives no specific dates nor does it indicate whether the project was carried out.
Information other than that provided in the attached documents may be pursued by the IRBDC upon further request. For a prompter response to specific questions you may have, however, you may wish to contact one of the North American offices of the IOM located in the United States. Their addresses and telephone numbers are found in the copies of the attached ICM publications.
The attached documents include:
-The Europa World Year Book 1990 (London: Europa Publications, 1990), p. 168;
-ICM 1988 - Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (ICM) (Geneva: ICM, 1989), pp. 5-23, 27, 40-47;
-ICM in Facts (Geneva: ICM, 1989), pp. 1-12.