Communities

This report accompanying the “Reintegration package” provides the context of return and reintegration in Ethiopia including the current policies, processes and stakeholders involved in reintegration interventions and to analyze the opportunities and gaps in the current system and make recommendations.

As of December 2020, Iraq has witnessed the return of 4.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their places of origin in the aftermath of the ISIL conflict. This is a significant returnee population and, while the movement home is a first step toward reintegration, it is not necessarily an indication of longer-term sustainability per se. The...

The return and reintegration of migrants unwilling or unable to remain in host or transit countries continues to draw attention of national and international policymakers around the world. Yet despite this attention, the experience of migrant children returning to their countries of origin is often overlooked even though they face unique challenges which...

The first Knowledge Bite, published in October 2020, gave a first indication of some of the factors that can contribute to or hamper sustainable reintegration outcomes. Notably, the results revealed that returnees benefiting from economic reintegration activities have on average higher sustainable reintegration scores compared to returnees not benefiting...

The migrant population in the People’s Republic of China grew steadily over 30 years before showing signs of decline in the last 5 years. In the paper, push and pull factors identified were associated with the availability of assets both in migration destinations and back at home that the migrants can draw upon for income and livelihoods. These assets...

The module follows the structure of the Reintegration Handbook with the aim of demonstrating child rights and childsensitive approaches to reintegration assistance within the integrated approach. The module has five parts covering key principles for a child rights and integrated approach, child-sensitive reintegration at the individual, community and...

The Impact Evaluation of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative Programme for Migrant Protection and Reintegration (Horn of Africa), hereby IMPACT, aims to provide a robust assessment of the impact of IOM’s reintegration assistance, providing an accountability mechanism to beneficiaries of the programme, the donor and wider sector, and an evidence base to inform future...

In line with the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (2016) and the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework - preceded by the Brazil Plan of Action (2014) and the San José Action Statement (2016) - countries in Central America and Mexico have committed to implement the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework (MIRPS, according to...

La plupart des migrants de retour au Sénégal sont endettés. Ils ont contracté des prêts soit pour financer leur parcours migratoire, soit pour couvrir des frais personnels et professionnels. Ces prêts créent des contraintes financières et morales qui déterminent leur capacité à participer à la vie économique et sociale dans leur pays d’origine. Cette étude a...

La migration de retour est un phénomène qui a pris de l’ampleur au Mali avec l’insécurité croissante de la région, la dangerosité des routes migratoires caractérisées par la traversée de la mer Méditerranée ou du désert du Sahara, le renforcement des contrôles aux frontières et par les risques grandissants de protection en Libye. Or les rapports sur les...

Les coûts imprévus et les risques liés à la migration irrégulière dissuadent certains migrants qui décident de rentrer dans leurs pays d’origine. Un facteur en particulier va influencer significativement les conditions de réintégration du migrant de retour : il s’agit de son endettement. En effet, le remboursement des montants empruntés va exercer une...

La présente étude s’intéresse à l’impact des crédits contractés par les migrants de retour sur leur réintégration en Côte d’Ivoire. Elle entend: 1) Détailler les montants, les mécanismes et les temporalités des différents types de prêts financiers effectués par les migrants, ainsi que les dimensions symboliques, psychosociales et culturelles de la dette. Il...

Malgré les dangers rencontrés le long de la route de la Méditerranée Centrale, et les prix élevés des passages des frontières, la migration irrégulière a continué d’attirer de nombreux Burkinabè, motivés par l’espoir d’une vie meilleure et sans conflits. Néanmoins, le poids des dettes contractées avant ou pendant la migration peut facilement s’ajouter aux...

This webinar organized by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub discussed the importance of returnees’ psychosocial wellbeing during the reintegration process. In this frame, the online event introduced practical tools to adopt a psychosocial perspective to reintegration counselling and to ensure mental health and social wellbeing through remote working...

The closing event of the IOM ORION (Operationalising an Integrated Approach to Reintegration) project took place on 26 November 2020. This project, funded by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), has been running since February 2018 and will end in December 2020. Through this project, a global Reintegration Handbook and related training...