Protection

This Practitioner Guide presents existing research and evidence on the recovery and reintegration of trafficking victims, including challenges faced and practices that can be mobilized to enhance reintegration outcomes. It is part of the NEXUS/RSO Practitioner Guide series: Improving the Identification, Protection and Reintegration of Trafficking Victims in...

Although return is a natural part of migration patterns, it can also become a highly sensitive issue when migrants are not legally entitled to remain in their host country and decide to return home of their own volition or are compelled to do so by force. Irregular migration remains a prominent trend in Bali Process Member States. Through an Assisted...

This policy guide provides overarching guidance on the core principles and approaches for the successful design and formulation of policies on returns and reintegration by the member states of the Bali Process. The policy guide should be used in conjunction with the Bali Process Thematic Brief on Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR), produced...

This study was commissioned in the framework of the EU–IOM Knowledge Management Hub under the “Pilot Action on Voluntary Return and Sustainable, Community-Based Reintegration” project, funded by the European Union and implemented by IOM. The two recognized that while understanding of and evidence around the sustainable reintegration of adults has been...

In 2016, over half a million Nigerians are thought to have set out across the Sahara in a bid to reach Europe, but only around 46,000 Nigerians reached the countries of the European Union, with many Nigerians dying in transit or finding themselves stuck in other countries in the Sahel and Lake Chad region. Displacement is largely caused by the actions of non...

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) represents a significant commitment to improve migration governance; it is also an opportunity to maximise the benefits and to address the challenges associated with migration today. To support Member States with the implementation of the GCM, the United Nations Network on Migration (Network)...

This paper aims to consolidate available information on the impact of COVID-19 on stranded migrants, to gauge a better understanding of their evolving challenges and needs, and to serve as a first step towards the (re)design of tailored programmes, advocacy and responses. The analysis is based on the qualitative and quantitative data collected by IOM on the...

As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged globally, migrant workers, both internationally and within Bangladesh, found themselves facing a new set of challenges and vulnerabilities. With limited access to income-generating activities, social services, healthcare systems, and social support networks, many have opted to return home. During May and June, IOM, supported...

The webinar  “IOM Reintegration Handbook: Presenting the IOM-UNICEF Module on Reintegration of Children and their Families”, organized by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH), presented the module 6 of the Reintegration Handbook and shared lessons learnt when providing reintegration assistance to children and their families. The module, result of a...

Individuals who are not entitled to stay in the European Union are typically subject to being returned to their home countries. This includes children who are not accompanied by their parents or by another primary caregiver. But returning such children, or finding another durable solution, is a delicate matter, and doing so in full compliance with...

The present publication brings together the main conclusions of the international conference “The Migration of Unaccompanied Minors in Europe: the Contexts of Origin, the Migration Routes and the Reception Systems” organized in October 2007 by the research centre MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers–CNRS and the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (based...