Practices by Stakeholder 5

Assistance at borders

In particular crises, migrants’ best or only option for obtaining life-saving assistance may involve moving across borders into neighboring States. Measures that States of transit can employ to provide services to migrants arriving from host States include:

• Providing transportation from border or remote areas to the capital, airports, or shelters;
• Establishing reception and transit facilities to identify and register migrants and provide them with shelter, food rations, and emergency medical care;
• Providing migrants with or referring migrants to services, including appropriate consular services, shelter, food, health care, counseling, and education;
• Coordinating with relevant consular missions in the State of transit to protect migrants;
• Training or assistance to border officials to identify refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, unaccompanied or separated children, victims of trafficking, and others needing particular assistance, and referring them to appropriate authorities or stakeholders.