Country Profile El Salvador: Despite End to Civil War, Emigration Continues Thousands of Salvadorans fled the country during its civil war in the 1980s, many of them to the United States. The government is focused on engaging its diaspora but also must deal with immigrants from neighboring countries and issues around human trafficking. El Salvador page on the World Migration Map Migration and Development in El Salvador: Ideals Versus Reality Related Articles On the Other Side of the Fence: Changing Dynamics of Migration in the Americas Central Americans and Asylum Policy in the Reagan Era Remittance Trends in Central America The Central American Foreign Born in the United States CAFTA: What Could It Mean for Migration? Migration as a Factor in Development and Poverty Reduction The Political Importance of Diasporas

Neighboring Countries Guatemala Honduras Other Resources General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses http://www.digestyc.gob.sv Ministry of Foreign Affairs http://www.rree.gob.sv/sitio/sitiowebrree.nsf US Census Bureau International Data Base http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

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