1. MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER
Republic of the Marshall Islands
empowering migrants for united communities
Background
The International Organization for
Migration (IOM) promotes international
cooperation on migration issues to assist
in the search for practical solutions
to migration problems and to provide
humanitarian assistance to migrants and
the wider community.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)
became an IOM member state in 2013.
As part of its membership, the Marshall
Islands received the IOM Development
Fund (IDF) seed fund to establish a Migrant
Resource Center, as a collaborative effort
between the RMI national government, IOM,
and other partners in the Marshall Islands
and abroad.
Services Provided by the MRC
Pre-departure Orientation Training
The MRC offers pre-departure orientation training for
potential future migrants. The training covers topics such
as, health, housing, education, driving, legal landscape and
passport application or renewal. The training lasts about
two and a half days and caters to Marshallese planning to
migrate to the United States or associated territories.
Anti-human Trafficking Awareness Raising
In collaboration with the RMI Ministry of Justice, MRC
plans to conduct outreach with secondary school students,
college students, women's organizations, government, the
police, and civil society throughout the Marshall Islands to
ensure they are aware of the risks of human trafficking.
Other Services
The MRC is open on week days for drop in visits at your
convenience. Potential migrants, actual migrants, or
returning migrants are encouraged to visit with our trained
MRC resource staff and benefit from the information
provided. We want you to make informed decisions - so
please stop by with your questions. The MRC also provides
services for actual or returned migrants who need help
integrating or re-integrating.
Migrant Resource Center - Majuro Tel: 625-4705
For urgent migration assistance - 24/7 Hotline: (691) 922 7511
To make a report, Marshall Islands Transnational Crime Unit, Tel: 625 3233
contact
mrcmicronesia.org IOM-Asia-Pacific-International-Organization-for-Migration

2. Trafficking
Trafficking in persons is the recruitment, transportation,
transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of
the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion,
of abduction, of fraud, of deception of the abuse of
power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving
or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the
consent of a person having control over another person,
for the purpose of exploitation.
Trafficking ej meļeļe in anemkwōje jimwe im
maron ko an juon armej nan wia kake ak kuli kake. Ej
waļok nan jabdewōt ilo wāween kappok im bōbōk ak
aljōk tak wōt armej, kōmakūt er jān jikin ñan jikin ,
ak wia armej nan anemkwōje jimwe im maron eo an,
kaamijak armej, kuli kake im wāween ko jet renana
ñan armej eo:
ilo wāween bōbōk ak aljōk tak wōt armej ak koot ļọk
armej nan jikin eo me ejjeļok aer jeļā kake ke renaaj
pojān mour in kuli ie ilo an ejjeļok mālim jān er
ilo wāween kōjerbal armej ak ejjeļok mool ilo koņ
ikōtaan armej eo im ikōtaan eo ej kipele ñan jerbal
eo enana ; karreelel im kallimur kake juon jerbal
eo enana im ej jab mool, kuli kake ri-jerbal eo
nan kōņaan ko an ri-wia eo make.
ilo wāween kuli kake im kōjerbale juon nan
kōmmane juon kain makūtkūt eo me emo
kōmmane āinwōt wia kake marijuana im
makūtkūt ko jet emọ kōmmani bwe rejelōt kakien
ko im mo ko ilo manit.
ilo wāween wia kake jimwe im maron an juon-im-
juon āinwōt wiaik būruōn jinen ak jemān bwe ren
wia kake ajri eo / ro nejierro; waanjoñọk, ilo an ri-
wia eo kōļļāik armej eo ej wia kake bar juon armej
nan an nāj ri-wia eo anemkwōje jimwe im maron
ko an armej eo eaar wiaiki
Aolepān wāween kein laajrak ilōn rej waļok nan
jabdewōt nan wōt anemkwōje jimwe im maron ko
aer, im bareinwōt kuli kake er.
Translation provided in coordination and collaboration with the
Marshallese Studies Department at the College of the Marshall Islands
and input from the Customary Law and Language Commission.
J-TIP
IOM has been strengthening its support of national efforts in the
Republic of Marshal Islands (RMI) to combat human trafficking
through a grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Office to
Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. The project will
contribute to the effective protection of victims of trafficking (VoT)
in the RMI. It will focus on: a) awareness raising on the issue of
trafficking in persons (TIP); b) boosting understanding and capacity
of law enforcement on proactive victim identification within
vulnerable populations and the need for victim-centered protection;
and c) establishment of national referral mechanism (NRM) for the
protection of VoT through strong partnerships between national
and local authorities. Every year the United States Office to Monitor
and Combat Trafficking in Persons compiles a report ranking
each country and their compliance with the Trafficking Victim’s
Protection Act’s (TVPA). The Marshall Islands is on Tier Three List
- this ranking means the country does not fully comply with the
minimum standards and is not making significant efforts to do
so. IOM via the J-TIP program is collaborating with government
entities, including the RMI National Taskforce on Human
Trafficking, to improve this standing.
Deportee Publication
IOM is collaborating with UNESCO on an upcoming publication
capturing the experience of the criminal deportee community
in the Marshall Islands. IOM recognizes the authority of States
to determine the entry or stay of foreign nationals within their
jurisdiction, which includes the right to remove those it does not
authorize to enter or stay. IOM engaged in this research exercise
in order to better understand the return and reintegration process
of the deportee community to better inform related policy or
services provided by the newly established Migrant Resource
Center. This research further exemplified the harsh reality of
deportation as told through the insights and experiences of
migrants forcibly returned to the Marshall Islands. In telling
their stories they revealed many instances of family separation,
particularly among those with children born in the United States
and provided citizenship therewith.
partners
Arkansas Coalition
of Marshallese