Return and Reintegration

​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...

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...

The report explores some of the issues, obstacles and opportunities related to the return and integration of women migrants who have experienced exploitative situation abroad, including forced labour and human trafficking. It is based on a series of interviews with returned victims of trafficking in Thailand and the Philippines.

This information sheet aims to give a brief overview of the VARRP Reintegration Assistance programme under the New Approach from the end of October 2007 to the end of December 2009. The information given in this document is split into two parts. Part 1 gives an analysis of reintegration cases assisted worldwide during the above period and looks at the...

Within the framework of Swiss return assistance programme, some asylum seekers opting for return to their country of origin may benefit from inkind reintegration assistance. Many of them choose to use the assistance granted by the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) to start a business project. Project preparation already begins in Switzerland...

Cette recherche vise à soutenir la mise en place d’activités économiques, sociales et psychosociales favorisant la réintégration durable des migrants assistés au retour. Son objectif général est de mieux comprendre les communautés de retour afin de formuler des recommandations au niveau communautaire et national.

This report is a mapping and socio-economic profiling of communities of return in Ghana, based on a field research in Ghana carried out in February 2018. This analysis aims to better understand the communities in which returnees arrive, to make recommendations at local and national levels. Recommendations for IOM Ghana and each communities of return are...

The objective of this report is to support the operationalisation of the Joint Initiative for Migration Protection and Reintegration in Africa and to better understand the communities in which returning migrants return or arrive - to make recommendations at the EU and national level. This document seeks to contribute to understanding Guinea Bissau’s complex...

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...

Hundreds of thousands of Central Americans, deported from Mexico and the United States, have arrived back in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in the past five years. Often facing conditions that are worse now than when they departed, this rapidly growing population of deportees -including tens of thousands of children-...

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...

To enable returning migrants to achieve sustainable reintegration, activities must include, in addition to economic projects, initiatives addressing the social and the psychosocial dimensions of sustainable reintegration. To this end, the analysis presented in this report provides an understanding of the communities in which returnees return to or arrive in...

This document seeks to contribute to understanding Gambia’s complex dynamics to help IOM adapt its reintegration strategy and activities in areas of actual or potential return. To do so, this synthesis report identifies a number of challenges in the context of sustainable reintegration, and proposes levers of action, particularly at the local level. The...

Cette recherche vise à soutenir la mise en place d’activités économiques, sociales et psychosociales favorisant la réintégration durable des migrants assistés au retour. Son objectif général est de mieux comprendre le contexte des communautés de retour afin de formuler des recommandations au niveau communautaire et national.

La présente étude vise à soutenir la mise en place opérationnelle de l’Initiative conjointe à travers: 1) une étude de 6 communautés de retourr et à fort potentiel migratoire identifiées par l’OIM en Côte d’Ivoire et 2) une base de référence socioéconomique pour permettre une évaluation de l’impact des initiatives d’aide au retour et à la...

Cette recherche vise donc à soutenir la mise en place d’activités économiques, sociales et psychosociales favorisant la réintégration durable des migrants assistés au retour. Son objectif général est de mieux comprendre les communautés dans lesquelles les migrants de retour reviennent ou arrivent afin de formuler des recommandations au niveau...