Policy and Legislation

This is the third jointly-commissioned donor review of IOM Zimbabwe. The specific purpose of the review was to: Assess IOM’s progress against agreed outputs in the programme logframe; Assess the appropriateness of IOM’s current programmes; Identify opportunities to enhance donor harmonisation.

Building upon the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants adopted on 19 September 2016, the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) will set out a range of principles, commitments and understandings among Member States regarding international migration in all its dimensions. The GCM should make an important contribution to global...

This report aims to provide an overview of return and circular migration flows currently occurring in Afghanistan. The objectives of this report are to: i. clarify the current types of return migration flows to Afghanistan; ii. provide information on these flows (including the number of individuals, the demographics of the flows, the reasons for the initial...

This report presents emerging findings from ongoing research on migrants caught in countries experiencing crisis. This research broadens the evidence base on the situations of migrants in crisis-affected countries, particularly focusing on socio-economic and long-term implications at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels

The Monitoring Returned Minors (MRM) research project aimed at developing a monitoring and evaluation instrument that contributes to more sustainable and safer return of minors. The project was initiated by HIT Foundation on behalf of the European Commission and was executed in close collaboration with Nidos, Micado Migration, the University of Groningen and...

The study compiles recent data on the scale of irregular migration in Germany as well as on voluntary and forced returns. Furthermore, relevant actors, their channels and challenges of disseminating information on voluntary return to irregular staying third-country nationals are described.

​This report presents insights from the research project Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration (PREMIG), funded by the Research Council of Norway and led by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Over a five-year period, a core group of eight researchers in Norway and the United Kingdom studied return migration from multiple perspectives. They...

In the past five years, hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants deported from Mexico and the United States—including tens of thousands of children—have arrived back in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. For many deportees, the conditions upon arrival are worse than those that compelled them to leave in the...

This Migration Policy Institute (MPI) webinar focuses on reception and reintegration services for returning migrants, along with the heightened pressure policymakers in Mexico and Central America are facing to design systems and programs that support both returnees and the communities in which they settle. Authors of a year-long study of reception and...

This webinar examines the policies, practices, and contextual factors that make compulsory returns such a difficult issue for international cooperation, and the programs that are being implemented to make reintegration of returnees sustainable. Speakers explore the competing perspectives migration policymakers must attempt to reconcile when considering...

The research has delivered useful insights into the differences between asylum seekers and irregular migrants as regards their migration behaviour in general and their plans concerning return and reintegration assistance in particular. The study suggests that the will to return among irregular migrants is greater than among (rejected) asylum seekers, who...

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...

En el desarrollo del presente estudio se observa en detalle los diferentes instrumentos de protección a los que hacen referencia los derechos de los migrantes.

A partir de la idea de que la población retornada puede contribuir de manera significativa al desarrollo del país, aprovechando sus habilidades y conocimientos adquiridos en el exterior, esta Cartilla informa de manera actualizada a los colombianos residentes en el exterior que deseen o decidan regresar voluntariamente, acerca de las instituciones...

Return triggers the uncertain process of reintegration. Evidence shows that the moment of return is the beginning of a process that takes time, is multidimensional and is often non-linear. This article published in Migration Policy Practice, Volume IX, no 1, delves deeper into the process of reintegration.

Assisted voluntary return is a central component of many countries managed migration policies. Within these programmes achieving a sustainable return is a common policy goal, which is often measured through remigration. In this paper, it is argued that remigration is not a valid indicator to measure sustainable return. A new definition and approach to...

This research report is published in the framework of the project "Return Initiative of Irregular Migrants". The general objective of the project was to contribute to the increase of humane and orderly voluntary return of irregular migrants staying illegally in the EU, in particular Austria, Germany and the Netherlands by strengthening the mechanisms and...