Return and Reintegration

This Knowledge Paper is the first issue of the Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Papers Series published by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH). Microfinance, and more specifically microcredit, is regularly mentioned by reintegration practitioners and experts when discussing avenues to strengthen the sustainability of migrants’ reintegration. Yet...

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...

The report, prepared by ICMC, addresses the protection of unaccompanied migrant children. The focus of the research is on unaccompanied children in the Americas moving within and from the “Northern Triangle” of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras through Mexico to rejoin family members in the US. The report also describes two programs that ICMC supported on...

Decisions on the return of Afghans from Europe are often based on the perceived support that communities of return and social networks can provide. This assumption shapes court decisions over asylum cases and is factored in assistance packages upon return. It is assumed that social networks will act as a “safety net” for returnee. However, recent evidence on...

This webinar organized by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub presented detailed analysis and findings from this second issue of the Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Bites Series. Building on the findings from the first Knowledge Bite, published in October 2020, the second Knowledge Bite explores additional factors that contribute to higher levels of...

Since the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a global challenge and demanded stronger coordination and governance among the international development organizations, governments, civil societies, and between stakeholders within the countries. The problem stipulates responses that go far beyond just the health and well-being of the population...

This report accompanying the “Reintegration package” provides the context of return and reintegration in Ethiopia including the current policies, processes and stakeholders involved in reintegration interventions and to analyze the opportunities and gaps in the current system and make recommendations.

As of December 2020, Iraq has witnessed the return of 4.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their places of origin in the aftermath of the ISIL conflict. This is a significant returnee population and, while the movement home is a first step toward reintegration, it is not necessarily an indication of longer-term sustainability per se. The...

The return and reintegration of migrants unwilling or unable to remain in host or transit countries continues to draw attention of national and international policymakers around the world. Yet despite this attention, the experience of migrant children returning to their countries of origin is often overlooked even though they face unique challenges which...

Seven months after the first cases of COVID-19 emerged in Bangladesh, the pandemic continues to impact mobility, security and socioeconomic stability within the country and on a global scale. As a result, migrant returnees remain vulnerable to a number of challenges, including severely limited employment access, mobility restrictions, health concerns, debt...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, millions of migrants have returned to their countries of origin, either having lost jobs abroad or because they wished to reunite with their families in these difficult times. Simultaneously, large numbers of migrants have found themselves stranded abroad and in need of assistance to either return to their origin countries...

The first Knowledge Bite, published in October 2020, gave a first indication of some of the factors that can contribute to or hamper sustainable reintegration outcomes. Notably, the results revealed that returnees benefiting from economic reintegration activities have on average higher sustainable reintegration scores compared to returnees not benefiting...