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Study
29 July 2020

Return to Mexico: exploring the (re)integration experience

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...
Guideline
27 July 2020

Durable Solutions for Children Toolkit

The Toolkit allows practitioners to build evidence-based and child-focused, long-term solutions and advocacy interventions. It provides substantial direction on issues of return and re-integration and outlines options, actions and legal guidance related to local integration and resettlement. It can help measure child specific gaps in displacement and...
Initiatives
July 24, 2020

IPSO Afghanistan

IPSO - International Psychosocial Organization is a humanitarian non-profit organization which specializes in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPSS) and in sociocultural dialogue to promote peace and social cohesion. Returnees to Afghanistan, who have problems to reconnect to family and community, will find support at the Psychosocial and...
Initiatives
July 08, 2020

Reintegrate - Support to sustainable (re)integration of returnees in Serbia

The aim of the project is creating dignified living conditions for returnees through intensive socio-economic support in order to achieve sustainable reintegration and improve reintegration mechanisms in three cities in Serbia. Specific objective: Returnee families have been socially and economically reintegrated and sustainable reintegration structures have...
Initiatives
June 15, 2020

Programm Perspektive Heimat (Returning to New Opportunities)

BMZ’s ‘Returning to New Opportunities’ programme creates prospects – for returnees, internally displaced people and the local population. In the partner countries, the programme offers a wide variety of individual support services. Advice Centres for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration and approximately 25 projects realize the programme in 13 partner countries...
Publication

IOM Launches Reintegration Handbook in French, Spanish and Arabic

With this Handbook, IOM aims to share its expertise, as well as that of its partners, to provide practical guidance on the design, implementation and monitoring of reintegration assistance to migrants unable or unwilling to remain in host or transit countries and returning through assisted voluntary return or through returns organized by host governments and...
Initiatives
June 04, 2020

Joint Complementary Mechanism for a Sustainable Reintegration in Brazil (SURE)

This project aims to contribute to a more informed and sustainable reintegration process in Brazil, through a complementary joint reintegration model. This mechanism reinforces the support provided by existing Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration programs implemented in Portugal, Belgium and Ireland. Strengthening the connection between pre-departure...
Study
12 May 2020

Silent Harm. A report assessing the situation of repatriated children's psycho-social health

Prompted by the lack of child-focused migration research, and concerns about a possible impact of repatriation on children’s psychosocial health, UNICEF decided to explore how repatriation and reintegration realities interact with children’s mental health. Focusing on children repatriated from Germany and Austria to Kosovo, this study aims to provide...
Position paper
08 May 2020

Re/integration of trafficked persons. Working with trafficked children and youth

This paper was developed in the context of the Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programme (TVRP), which funds NGO’s in several countries of Southeastern Europe. It is the fifth of a series that aim to shed light on good practices in the area of re/integration as well as on important lessons learned. This paper addresses the issue of the re/integration of...
Leaflet/booklet
27 April 2020

Making Life Better for Children on the Move. Promising practices for working with and supporting children on the move

Destination Unknown is working to ensure children and young people on the move can exercise their human rights, have hope for the future and thrive in inclusive societies where they are free from discrimination. This new booklet, ‘ Making life better for children on the move: Promising practices for working with and supporting children on the move‘ presents...
Report
24 April 2020

Distant Dreams: Understanding the aspirations of Afghan returnees

This report is based on 56 in-depth interviews with former Afghan migrants and refugees who have returned from Iran, Pakistan and Europe. The research reveals returnees’ aspirations and hopes for their future, including psychosocial challenges when reintegrating and how those suffering from more severe psychosocial conditions after return have also...
Guideline
02 April 2020

Reintegration Counselling: A Psychosocial Approach

The present guide is intended to provide key information on the importance of a psychosocial approach to post-arrival reintegration counselling, describing the basic counselling and communication skills necessary to conduct a successful and psychologically informed reintegration counselling interview with a returned migrant. It is a practical tool to support...
Online course
27 February 2020

Reintegration Handbook Online Course

This online course, based on the Reintegration Handbook, aims at providing a foundational learning experience covering the various levels (individual, community and structural) and dimensions (economic, social and psychosocial) affecting reintegration. The curriculum consists of 5 modules : 1. Introduction to the Integrated Approach to Reintegration. 2...
Publication

IOM Launches Reintegration Handbook Online Course

In November 2019, IOM launched its Reintegration Handbook to guide all reintegration practitioners in the design, implementation and monitoring of assistance provided to returnees. IOM is now pleased to announce the launch of a related online course. It is a self-guided learning tool that takes participants through the core contents of the Reintegration...
Report
24 February 2020

Smart practices that enhance resilience of migrants. Summary Report. June 2016

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) commissioned this study to share smart practices from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and other partners and to ensure that all National Societies have the knowledge, resources and capacities to support vulnerable migrants. The study is based on interviews with...
Report
21 February 2020

Independent Evaluation of IOM Project: Enhancing Protection and Improving Knowledge on the Risks of Irregular Migration in Sudan Phase II. Final Report

In recent years, Sudan has experienced increased attention as a country of origin, transit and destination of mixed migration flows from Africa to Europe and the Middle East. Refugees and other migrants from the Horn of Africa, particularly Eritreans and Ethiopians and also Somali, Nigerians and Yemenis, often cross Sudan on the way further north to (1)...
Guideline
19 February 2020

Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons

The overarching goals of this Toolkit are those of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. These goals are: To prevent and combat trafficking; To protect and assist its victims; To promote international cooperation...
Article (issue/policy brief, journal, blog, etc.)
18 February 2020

Ideas of ‘home’ and ‘return home’ in voluntary return messaging – A contemplation on the impact of passage of time and sense of failure on asylum-seekers’ engagements with voluntary return in Ireland 

This article explores how asylum-seekers currently registered in Ireland’s ‘direct provision’ system feel about the prospect of assisted voluntary return to their country of origin. One of the article’s recommendations is that organizations active in the field of voluntary return should invest more time in trying to understand how asylum-seekers remember and...
Leaflet/booklet
18 February 2020

FORAS: Voici mon histoire...

Ce livret présente une série d’histoires de migrants inscrits au programme d’aide au retour volontaire et à la réintégration (AVRR) au Maroc. Ces voix qui méritent d’être écoutées ont pu profiter avant le retour dans leur pays d’origine, d’une série de modules de formation de courte durée visant essentiellement à renforcer la durabilité de la réintégration...
Report
18 February 2020

The Causes and Consequences of Re-trafficking: Evidence from the IOM Human Trafficking Database

Although there is consensus among different actors regarding the seriousness and significance of re-trafficking as a problem, there has been very little research conducted into its incidence, cause or consequence. This research paper, funded by United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (G/TIP), aims to address this gap...