Economic Opportunities and Labour Rights

In response to the growing need to facilitate and assist the voluntary return and reintegration of vulnerable migrants in North Africa, IOM Egypt has produced the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Handbook for the North African Region. This handbook will serve as a tool to build the capacities of governments, NGOs, international organizations and...

This 12 month research report explores the key determining factors for migrants in taking the decision to stay in Ireland or to return to their country of origin. These include the Irish migration control system; security; political instability; economic opportunity and family life.

In view of an information gap on the incidence and prevalence of human trafficking in Musina, a city in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, this rapid assessment gives evidence to various forms of trafficking, and different forms of exploitation. While many migrants are at risk of being trafficked being inexperienced and not informed of immigration...

The study gives an overview of the EU Member States' experience in organising and practically implementing assisted voluntary return programmes. The study aims at summarising the experience of the EU Member States referring to the principles of historical and structural analysis. The survey first defines the general concept of voluntary return and models of...

This national study has been produced within the framework of the European Migration Network. It provides information about the terminology concerning Assisted Return in Austria and offers a broad overview of the legal framework, Assisted Return measures and available data mainly focusing on the year 2009.

This booklet contains the written contributions as well as unofficial translations from the transcripts of the Round Table on International Migration Law and Policies which took place in Dakar, Senegal, 8-9 December 2009.

This study was conducted between November 2007 and January 2008, with the aim to assess the mental health and psychosocial needs of Iraqis displaced in Jordan and Lebanon, to investigate the provision of services available to them, and plan interventions addressing their needs. The research has a double-fold objective: provide all humanitarian actors with...

In this overview paper, basic questions related to voluntary internal migration are revisited with a view to adding some of the substantial new field evidence that has emerged in recent years and setting out the policy implications of these findings. The paper addresses internal voluntary migration for paid work. It includes both permanent and temporary...

This study looks at the return and reintegration of returning migrants from western Europe to their countries of origin in the South Caucases. Its main aim was to study the process of return and reintegration of migrants in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, and to assess the impact of the return of migrants on their families and communities.

This Handbook aims to provide practical guidance on the design, implementation and monitoring of reintegration assistance for returnees. While reintegration is a process taking place in different return contexts (for example following spontaneous, forced or assisted voluntary returns, or internal displacement), the Handbook focuses on assistance provided to...