Return and Reintegration

Malgré les dangers rencontrés le long de la route de la Méditerranée Centrale, et les prix élevés des passages des frontières, la migration irrégulière a continué d’attirer de nombreux Burkinabè, motivés par l’espoir d’une vie meilleure et sans conflits. Néanmoins, le poids des dettes contractées avant ou pendant la migration peut facilement s’ajouter aux...

The guide is intended to help national authorities and other organisations dealing with trafficking victims, or people at risk, to help make sure that no-one should be forced to return to their home country if it is not safe for them to do so. It sets out the legal bases under international and European law – including the European Convention on Human Rights...

This webinar organized by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub discussed the importance of returnees’ psychosocial wellbeing during the reintegration process. In this frame, the online event introduced practical tools to adopt a psychosocial perspective to reintegration counselling and to ensure mental health and social wellbeing through remote working...

The closing event of the IOM ORION (Operationalising an Integrated Approach to Reintegration) project took place on 26 November 2020. This project, funded by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), has been running since February 2018 and will end in December 2020. Through this project, a global Reintegration Handbook and related training...

The study, conducted in collaboration with the Samuel Hall think tank and the University of Sussex under the FCDO-funded ORION Project, analyses outcomes of reintegration in three fieldwork countries (Guinea, Morocco, and Senegal), combined with analysis of data across 14 additional countries.

The research report presents the results of the “Project Migrants Interested in Returning” (PRIM), which was carried out at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in 2019 on behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The study...

Most migrants who return to the Gambia are indebted. Loans are contracted either in the context of migrating, or to cover personal and professional expenses. They create financial and social constraints which shape the returnees’ ability to participate actively in the social and economic life of their country of origin. Understanding the mechanisms of...

The webinar, organized by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub, presented the series and the findings of the first Knowledge Bite emerging from the high-level, cross-country quantitative analysis of the Reintegration Sustainability Survey data available for the EU-IOM Actions.

The webinar, organized by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management, introduced the innovative practice of Virtual Counselling, a project implemented by IOM and funded by the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, allowing migrants living in Germany to contact IOM staff via social media and online messaging services in 16 countries of origin and receive...

Annexes of the IOM Reintegration Handbook provide additional useful tools and further guidance on specific reintegration interventions. There is an increasing awareness of the role environmental factors play – in conjunction with others – in driving migration, and of the ways in which climate change impacts exacerbate these factors. It is also understood...

Background Migration to India is a common livelihood strategy for poor people in remote Western Nepal. To date, little research has explored the degree and nature of healthcare access among Nepali migrant workers in India. This study explores the experiences of returnee Nepali migrants with regard to accessing healthcare and the perspectives of stakeholders...

The present guide is intended to provide key information on the importance of post-arrival counselling, the basic counselling and communication skills, and how to conduct a reintegration counselling interview. At the same time, it offers some tips to understand the emotional complexity and the psychosocial challenges that returnees might experience upon...

This first introductory Knowledge Bite focuses on a high-level analysis of the RSS data collected in the framework of the various EU-IOM Actions and centrally available with the scope of defining some of the factors affecting sustainable reintegration outcomes and providing insights on the reasons behind these. The main results suggest that returnees...