Migrants in Vulnerable Situations

Since 2000, IOM has been producing its flagship world migration reports every two years. The World Migration Report 2022, the eleventh in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration and mobility throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as...

The EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration: The Gambia is part of a regional initiative covering and closely cooperating with 26 countries in North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel and Lake Chad region. It aims to facilitate the sustainable reintegration of returning migrants and to contribute to strengthening migration...

The EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration: The Gambia is part of a regional initiative covering and closely cooperating with 26 countries in North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel and Lake Chad region. It aims to facilitate the sustainable reintegration of returning migrants and to contribute to strengthening migration...

Somalia lies at the centre of old migration routes dating back centuries, and now used by scores of mainly young people, including minors, on their way to the Gulf countries. The country is a key source, transit and, to some extent, destination location for irregular migratory flows due to its porous borders, including Africa’s longest coastline. From March...

This report presents the outcomes of two combined research projects: 1) “Comparative reintegration outcomes in forced and voluntary returns”, and 2) “Understanding and implementing gender-sensitive sustainable reintegration”. The aims of these projects were to study differences in reintegration outcomes between forced and voluntary returnees, and male and...

The Eastern Route, which runs from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, in particular to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), has long been the most relevant migratory corridor in terms of volume and characteristics in the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) region. Mobility along this route is mixed in nature, with different categories of people on the...

Building on the global joint work by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on hunger, migration and displacement in the world from November 2020, this report aims to provide an overview of the unique challenges faced by migrants and forcibly displaced...

Established in early 2018, the Regional Data Hub (RDH) for East and Horn of Africa aims to support evidence-based, strategic and policy-level discussion on migration through a combination of initiatives. The RDH aims to enhance the availability of migration related data and promote its dissemination in the region to achieve stronger governance outcomes and...

Since May 2017, IOM has electronically registered 421,709 returnees Ethiopians, this factsheet presents their profiles, as well as key data pertaining return and reintegration in the KSA. Background: In April 2017, the Government of Saudi Arabia launched a campaign titled ‘A Nation without Violations’, granting all irregular migrants an amnesty period of 90...

The political and humanitarian landscape of the EHoA region has been highly fluid since 2018. Despite the complex mix of protracted crises and new emerging internal displacement, especially due to conflict in Ethiopia which drove the regional number of displaced persons to nearly 8 million at the end of 2018,3 the region witnessed several major positive...

Esta sistematización muestra el trabajo realizado por la OIM El Salvador en un programa para la reinserción cultural de migrantes retornados llamado Mi nueva Vida Es. El objetivo fue brindar a la población salvadoreña retornada sin arraigo atención inmediata y el acompañamiento necesario para permitir un proceso digno basado en el pleno goce de sus derechos...

Esta iniciativa desarrollada por la OIM en su oficina en Honduras consistió en el acondicionamiento de los centros de atención a migrantes como respuesta a la crisis humanitaria ante los altos flujos migratorios de personas hondureñas retornadas al país. El equipo del proyecto readecuó y adaptó estos centros, para brindar servicios acordes a las necesidades...

El documento pone a disposición de las y los profesionales que brindan servicios de salud mental, tanto a las personas retornadas de forma directa como a la población en la que se integran, conocimientos fundamentales sobre el contexto teórico, normativo y de acción a seguir para contribuir de manera efectiva a la reintegración de las personas salvadoreñas...

La "Guía de atención psicosocial para personas migrantes retornadas en condición de vulnerabilidad y víctimas de trata" se desarrolló como parte del proyecto "Reintegración de Personas Migrantes Retornadas y Víctimas de Trata en El Salvador". La guía tiene especial énfasis en la protección y asistencia a personas migrantes retornadas y víctimas de trata de...