This paper highlights the different risks and vulnerabilities that human mobility, either internal or international, voluntary or forced, regular or irregular, represents for people on the move. It focuses on the challenges faced during the mobility phase itself, especially for those in transit through increasingly dangerous migration routes. It also shows the integration gaps and discrimination challenges that migrants and forcibly displaced persons, especially women and girls, experience in LAC countries.

The paper then analyses how human mobility may affect resilience and development in countries of transit and destination, but also in countries of origin and return. Finally, it shows how it is possible to build resilience in human mobility contexts through a series of policy recommendations aimed at minimizing the potential risks and vulnerabilities associated with migration and forced displacement, and maximizing their development impact.