This page contains general information about the CMC, but it is not its official website.
Type: Regional consultative process on migration (region: Caribbean and Central America)
Formal association with regional or multi-stakeholder organization: None
Established: 2016
Launched: 2019
The CMC has been inactive since 2022
Objectives
- Create a non-binding forum that allows member countries to openly discuss migration topics in order to develop consistent and coordinated regional efforts for the effective management of migration.
- Coordinate and promote information exchange between member states, with emphasis in sharing good practices related to migration governance.
- Develop policies with a rights-based approach aimed at an effective comprehensive migration governance in the region.
Thematic Focus
Specific areas of CMC’s discussion include:
- Border Management
- Climate change
- Diaspora
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Labour migration
- Migrant smuggling
- Migration data
- Migration and Development
- Migration and health
- Counter-trafficking
- Refugee protection
Chairing Country
The chairmanship is under discussion but the following countries have acted as ad interim acting Chairs: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
Secretariat
No Secretariat has yet been established. CMC participants have requested IOM and UNHCR support to develop the CMC.
- States, territories and countries
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(No formal membership procedures yet established)
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Curacao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Montserrat
- St. Lucia
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Martin
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos
Note: Founding states, territories and countries: Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Turks and Caicos.
- Observers
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Observer States
- The Netherlands and the United States attended the 2017 CMC meeting.
Observer Organizations
No rule has been defined on observership.
- IOM
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- CARICOM
- CARICOM IMPACS
- CDEMA
- ECLAC.
- Selected Meetings
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- May 22, 2020, Webinar Webinar on IOM’s suggested Standard Operating Procedures for Front-line Border Officials at the Point of Entry in Response to COVID-19 Outbreak
- December 5-6, 2019, Kingston Jamaica, Preparatory Meeting for a Regional Approach to Migration and International Protection
- November 2019, Kingston, Jamaica, 1st CMC Meeting
- September 18-19, 2019, Kingston, Jamaica, Labor Migration
- September 5-6, 2019 , St. George’s, Grenada, Diaspora Engagement
- June 5 – 6, 2019, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Regional Consultation Towards a Framework for Regional Cooperation on Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters and the Adverse Effects of Climate Change in the Caribbean
- March 12 – 14, 2019, Georgetown, Guyana, Caribbean Regional Thematic Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling of Migrants
- March 6, 2019, San Jose, Costa Rica, Webinar on Labour Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Environmental Change in the Caribbean
- January 30, 2019, San Jose, Costa Rica, Webinar on the Potential of Diaspora and Development
- September 24 - 25 2018, Montego Bay, Jamaica, CMC Workshop on Migration Data Collection and Management
- 26-27 April 2018, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, First Workshop of the Caribbean Migration Consultations Counter-Trafficking Network
- 10 - 11 April 2018, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, High-level Workshop on Human Mobility and Disasters in the Caribbean
- 4 – 6 December 2017, Nassau, The Bahamas, CMC meeting on Refugee protection
- 5-8 December 2016, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, First Technical Workshop of Caribbean Countries in the Framework of the Caribbean Migration Consultations (CMC), Immigration Division
- 18-19 January 2016, Belize, Preparatory Meeting for the Caribbean Migration Consultations, Radisson
- Selected Documents
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- Free Movement of Persons in the Caribbean: Economic and Security Dimensions
- COVID-19 Report ECLAC-FAO: Review policy recommendations to prevent a regional food crisis
- Standard Operating Procedures for Front-line Border Officials at the Point of Entry in Response to COVID-19 Outbreak
- Migration Governance in the Caribbean. Report on the Island States of the Commonwealth Caribbean (CMC)
- Consultation Towards a Framework for Regional Cooperation on Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters and the Adverse Effects of Climate Change in the Caribbean
- Characteristics of the process for gathering and using administrative records on migration in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean
- Contact Information
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Webpage https://caribbeanmigration.org (inactive)