Migrants in Vulnerable Situations

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the unexpected return of many Cambodian women migrant workers to their home provinces. Job losses caused by lockdowns, border closures and a general fear of being separated from family members during the pandemic forced large numbers of women working abroad or in Cambodian cities to return to their home provinces. Since...

The report is based on the Swedish Red Cross' follow up missions in Albania, Iraq and Kosovo in 2019 and 2020, where 28 individuals returned from Sweden and other EU countries, and were interviewed. Mainly families were among the returnees. The report specifically focuses on women and children's experiences. The study looks at reasons for migration...

La situación migratoria México-Estados Unidos se ha transformado por completo. Más mexicanos retornan de Estados Unidos a México que aquellos que migran a ese país. Millones de mexicanos han salido de Estados Unidos debido a la recesión económica, el endurecimiento de la política migratoria y el fortalecimiento del sistema de deportaciones estadounidense...

Through KIND’s direct work with children and research it has been observed that returning migrant children often face stigma and discrimination in their communities. Returning children often have significant mental health needs, educational gaps, and, in the case of indigenous children, language and sometimes cultural loss. Without reintegration support...

The Eastern Route, which runs from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, in particular to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has long been the busiest and most relevant migratory corridor in the East and Horn of Africa region. In 2021, movement trends along the Eastern Corridor have significantly increased by 71% compared to 2020, suggesting that migration...

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of irregular child migration from Ethiopia based on a case study in five regions: Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) and Dire Dawa. The report first provides an insight into the characteristics of child migration patterns from Ethiopia, with an analysis of the...

Authored by Jeremaiah M. Opiniano, this Migration Research Series paper explores some of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Filipino overseas migrants and the responses and measures adopted by the Philippines in 2020. It reviews the main implications and challenges that were raised by the pandemic between 25 March 2020 and 24 March 2021, from issues...

The Asia–Pacific Migration Data Report series is the flagship publication for the region since 2020. The Asia–Pacific Migration Data Report 2021 consolidates the latest evidence on the migration landscape in the region in 2021, principally through the lens of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of 2021, Asia and the Pacific endured COVID-19...

The purpose of this note is to provide concrete guidance to policymakers, national statistical offices (NSOs) and practitioners on why it is important to promote gender-responsiveness when collecting, producing, using, analysing and disseminating migration data for policy – and how. Gender and diversity analysis is one tool that policymakers, NSOs and...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Ethiopian Migrants and Their Households in Five Communities of High Emigration (July 2022) is the fifth publication in a series of thematic reports that build on the analysis of data collected by the IOM Regional Data Hub for the East and Horn of Africa for a multistage research project aimed at better understanding the migration of...

El presente trabajo examina el proceso de retorno de los inmigrantes sudamericanos en España, centrando la atención en los cuatro colectivos más numerosos: argentinos, bolivianos, colombianos y ecuatorianos. Mediante datos oficiales de España y Censos Nacionales de Población de los países de origen, se describe la incidencia del retorno así como las...

The 2021 European Union (EU) Strategy on Return and Reintegration promotes voluntary return and reintegration as an integral part of a common EU system for returns, however, it does not specifically address the return and reintegration of victims of trafficking and people vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation. The Commission Staff Working Document on...

This report provides a snapshot of the fourth round of the Returnee Longitudinal Survey (RLS) data collection which took place from 23 February to 16 March 2022 among Afghan migrants who had returned from Türkiye or the EU between January 2018 and July 2021. A total of 627 returnees (541 from Türkiye and 86 from the EU) were interviewed over the phone across...

To better understand the demographic profiles, living conditions and reintegration processes of Afghan returnees, IOM, under the EU-funded project “Displacement Tracking Matrix Regional Evidence for Migration Analysis and Policy (DTM REMAP)”, developed the Returnee Longitudinal Survey (RLS). This RLS Report provides a snapshot of the of RLS data collection...

The Return Counselling Toolkit is a capacity-building instrument aimed at providing a harmonized and coherent approach to return counselling based on key migrant-centred principles. Accompanied by operational tools that can facilitate the work of return counsellors, the toolkit is conceived to address the capacity-building needs of return counsellors, as...

To better understand the demographic profiles, living conditions and reintegration processes of Afghan, Bangladeshi, Iraqi and Pakistani returnees, IOM, under the EU-funded project “Displacement Tracking Matrix Regional Evidence for Migration Analysis and Policy (DTM REMAP)”, developed the Returnee Longitudinal Survey (RLS). This RLS Comparison Report...

En los últimos años la investigación académica ha avanzado en la generación de información sobre el volumen, perfil y características demográficas de los migrantes de retorno, lo cual ha generado un llamado a la atención oportuna de las necesidades particulares de esta población desde la agenda pública. Aunque esta caracterización es el primer paso para...