Migration, Integration, and Diaspora Engagement in the Caribbean: A Policy Review

Moreover, the MPI and IDB | 2 MPI and IDB | 3 MIGRATION, INTEGRATION, AND DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN: A POLICY REVIEW MIGRATION, INTEGRATION, AND DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN: A POLICY REVIEW Caribbean diaspora has contributed to the region via the transfer of knowledge and skills, including through targeted initiatives that seek to counter the decades-old problem of brain drain. [...] When looking at migration in the Caribbean and considering both irregular immigration to and within the region and irregular emigration to other regions, such as North and South America, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) notes that “it is suspected that the total size of irregular migration is exceeding the size of regular migration flows.”4 In Trinidad and Tobago, the Internation. [...] the Republic, the National Police, the General Directorate of Immigration, the National Department of Investigations, and the Office of the Legal Counsel of the Executive Branch.20 Three other countries have developed policies to process refugees despite the absence of clear legislation. [...] This can be seen in the Declaration of the Forum of Employment Directors in 2013, which included pledges for the coordination of orderly labor migration, and a 2015 memorandum of understanding with the ILO and the Council of Ministers of Central America and the Dominican Republic to work together on the dynamics of migration, among other commitments.58 In sum, free mobility regimes and other migra. [...] MPI and IDB | 28 MPI and IDB | 29 MIGRATION, INTEGRATION, AND DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN: A POLICY REVIEW MIGRATION, INTEGRATION, AND DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN: A POLICY REVIEW to host a full campus.78 Similarly, the establishment and expansion of national universities in Caribbean countries has decreased the need to migrate in order to study, as different subjects and general.