Migrants in Vulnerable Situations

When women migrants return, they can face daunting challenges to re-integration but can also contribute to development and transforming societies.

When evacuated Bangladeshi migrants arrived home, the government, civil society, international organisations and the private sector cooperated to help them.

The 2018 Return and Reintegration Key Highlights showcases some of IOM’s most significant global, regional and national initiatives. The report is structured along three chapters: the first chapter presents an overview of current global trends, which are further elaborated by region in the second chapter. Albeit non-exhaustive, the third chapter features...

This AVRR 2017 Key Highlights report showcases some of IOM’s most significant global initiatives for the year 2017. The report is structured along three chapters: the first chapter presents an overview of current global AVRR trends, which are further elaborated by region in a second chapter. Albeit non exhaustive, the third chapter features some key IOM...

The AVRR Key Highlights report showcases some of IOM's most significant contributions for the year 2016. This report is structured by two distinct though complementary chapters: while the first chapter presents an overview of current trends and facts for AVRR at both the global and regional levels, the second chapter provides the reader with a series of...

Ethiopia has been facing an increased return of migrants, as a result of mass deportation from countries like Saudi Arabia, The Government of Ethiopia, together with other humanitarian actors successfully managed the return but, due to the absence of a national framework on reintegration, the reintegration component was not addressed. Hence this report...

Migration Initiatives is the main publication illustrating both the wide scope of IOM activities and the impact that the Organization aims to have in migration governance worldwide. For the first time ever, Migration Initiatives 2016 is structured around the Migration Governance Framework principles and objectives to provide a comprehensive look at what IOM...

Responding to chronic labour shortages in the oil rich Arab states in the 1970s and 1980s, some Asian states have been among the first to develop an active overseas employment or labour migration policy that seeks to provide protection to its nationals working abroad, relieve domestic unemployment and augment foreign exchange earnings. This volume looks at...

Salir o regresar ¡Al derecho! es una herramienta pedagógica que brinda a los migrantes potenciales o activos las herramientas necesarias para la toma informada de decisiones frente a su proceso migratorio y los sensibiliza frente a los riesgos asociados a la migración. Se construyó desde lo territorial, incluyendo las voces de las personas que en las...

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the main population movement trends that affected the East and Horn of Africa in 2018. The region continues to exhibit high mobility patterns, both internally within countries and across national boundaries. Migration is triggered by a complex mix of protracted crises, emerging internal conflicts, socio...

The International Organization for Migration continues to be actively involved in a number of Migrants' Assistance projects and Human Mobility data collection activities in the Horn of Africa (HoA) and in the Arab Peninsula. This report aims at providing an overvew of the trends observed in the first half of 2018 in the region, across Ethiopia, Somalia...

Thus far, 2018 has been historic in many ways. Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a landmark declaration of peace and friendship on 9 July, casting aside decades of hostility in a matter of weeks. The announcement of the end to the state of war was met by widespread jubilation in both countries, and was matched by concrete acts of rapprochement, which included...

This report aims to provide an overview of the trends observed in the second half of 2017 on the Western route across Yemen, Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia and was produced using data from IOM’s Migrants’ Assistance projects and Human Mobility data collection activities in the Horn of Africa and in the Arab Peninsula.

Despite the ongoing crisis that has forced millions of Iraqis flee their homes, the fact that hundreds of thousands of them are able to return to their places of origin is a sign of hope. However, while many may already back, putting an end to forced displacement, for most of them the situation upon returning remains extremely challenging. In order to better...

This research report is published in the framework of the projects "Randstad Return Initiative II" and "Return Initiative of Irregular Migrants". The research was conducted in the Netherlands.

Although 18 months have passed since the Iraqi government officially declared victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the city of Mosul – and particularly west Mosul, which was the group’s final stronghold in Iraq – is still facing significant challenges that hinder the return and reintegration of internally displaced persons (IDPs)...

Ce projet vise globalement à la réduction de la vulnérabilité et l’impact du retour des ressortissants de l’Algérie sur les populations hôtes à travers un appui aux besoins primaires et la stabilisation via des activités génératrices de revenus. Il comporte trois volets: (i) la mise en œuvre d’Activités Génératrices de Revenus (AGR) dans les villages les...

This Handbook aimed to support migration policy makers and practitioners on matters related to the reintegration of people who return to their countries of origin.

Les objectifs de la mission étaient d’analyser l’impact à ce jour du Programme et de recommander les activités à mettre en place d’ici le 30.05.2005, afin que soient atteints les objectifs du PDRRI de répondre aux besoins de ses bénéficiaires, tout en tenant compte du budget encore disponible et, en raison du ca ractère expérimental du PDRRI, de prendre en...

The IOM "Glossary on Migration" is as an accessible and comprehensive collection of migration-related terminology. Designed for all persons dealing with migration issues at the international level, the glossary aims at creating a common understanding of migration terms.