Economic Opportunities and Labour Rights

Reviewing current literature on return and reintegration processes, this working paper argues that the mobile livelihood patterns and capacities of displaced populations must be taken into account when donors and agencies plan and support such processes. Seen in this perspective, ‘sustainable return’ may involve continued mobility within and across borders...

In an effort to promote safe, orderly and regular migration management in Southern Africa, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), with financial support from the European Union (EU DG-DEVCO) and in close partnership with the National Institute for Mozambican Communities Abroad (INACE), implemented a three-year “Pilot Action on Voluntary Return...

In recent years, there has been a surge of “Northern” policy documents concerned with increasing the positive effects of international migration in countries of origin. This article contrasts some basic assumptions in policies on migration, return and development with an anthropological study of Cape Verdean returnees, and it reveals some important...

This paper, commissioned by the International Centre for Nurse Migration, focuses on some of the challenges and the opportunities created by migration of nurses, specifically focusing on the issue of return. Divided into five main sections, the paper looks at migration and population mobility in general to set the context, then focuses on the migration of...

At a time when there are more people on the move than ever before, it is pivotal to explore people's motivations and experiences of return migration. Whilst motivations for migration are comparatively well explored, return migrants' experiences are less well‐known and migrants' gender is rarely considered. This article addresses these gaps. It is based on...

This is a study about the return of migrants to their countries of origin and their subsequent reintegration experiences. By using qualitative research tools, this thesis aims to respond to the research question: What factors shape returnees’ (re)integration experiences? While the thesis is not explicitly comparative in nature, in order to analyse the ways...

La présente étude se situe dans le cadre d’une collaboration entre le Ministère Chargé des Marocains Résidant à l’Etranger et des affaires de la Migration (MCMREAM), l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) Maroc et l’Association Migration Internationale. En effet, ces organismes, préoccupés par les mutations socio- économiques que connaissait...

Le Gouvernement de Côte d’Ivoire et l’OIM, avec l’appui de l’Union européenne, mettent en œuvre depuis 2017 le projet « Initiative conjointe Fonds Fiduciaire d’Urgence de l’Union européenne (FFUE) – OIM pour la Protection et la Réintégration des migrants en Côte d’Ivoire ». Ce projet s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’Initiative régionale FFUE-OIM qui couvre...

Le Gouvernement de Côte d’Ivoire et l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM), avec l’appui de l’Union européenne, mettent en œuvre depuis 2017 l’Initiative conjointe UE–OIM pour la protection et la réintégration des migrants en Côte d’Ivoire. À travers cette initiative, l’OIM Côte d’Ivoire fournit aux migrants ivoiriens une aide au retour...

The Enterprise Development Fund (EDF) encourages rapid, large-scale private sector job creation and economic recovery through tailored support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Implemented by IOM in Iraq since 2018, the EDF is a financing mechanism that provides SMEs with financial capital to contribute to their recovery and/or expansion. It targets...

The number of return migrants in the Republic of Moldova is small and those who have returned face different socio‐economic reintegration problems, which leads to their re‐inclusion in migration. In this regard, ensuring a sustainable reintegration of return migrants becomes of a great importance. The article aims to analyse the process of socio‐economic...