Oportunidades económicas y derechos laborales

La segunda ronda de la Encuesta de Medios de Vida a Población Migrante Retornada en El Salvador se realizó a las personas adultas retornadas a su arribo al país en las instalaciones del Aeropuerto Internacional de El Salvador "San Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez". Las preguntas incluidas giran en torno a los objetivos específicos de la encuesta y están...

La Encuesta de Medios de Vida a Población Migrante Retornada en El Salvador se realiza a las personas adultas retornadas a su salida de los centros de cuarentena gestionados por MINSAL con el apoyo de DGME. Es un instrumento de carácter individual, que incluye preguntas que giran en torno a los objetivos específicos de la encuesta y están clasificadas en las...

This report by IOM Philippines seeks to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). In 2020, the Philippines saw a 75 per cent drop in overseas deployment while facing an unprecedented number of repatriations under the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report captures the experiences and challenges before, during and...

This paper profiles the return migration and reintegration of returning overseas workers into the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and discusses policy considerations. It explores the economic dimensions of the return of overseas workers and examines how the nature of reintegration programs and circumstances surrounding their return could...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact on international migration (including labor migration) and on migrant workers. Women migrant workers particularly felt the abrupt changes of needing to return to their home country, to safely elude the SARS-CoV-2 virus, to reunite with their families, and to move on from earning incomes overseas to maintaining a...

In 2019, the Regional Data Hub (RDH) for the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) launched a multistage research project aimed at better understanding the experiences, decision-making, perceptions and expectations of young Ethiopians along the Eastern Route regarding their migration projects. The project aims to investigate the nexus between decision-making...

In 2019, the IOM Regional Data Hub (RDH) for the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) launched a multistage research project aimed at better understanding the experiences, decision-making, perceptions and expectations of young Ethiopians1 along the Eastern Route regarding their migration projects. The project aims to investigate the nexus between decision-making...

The stories featured in this publication are true and have been relayed by Gambians who have received return and reintegration assistance by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The opinions expressed in the book are those of the protagonists and do not necessarily reflect the views of IOM. The designations employed and the presentation of...

Using life event history data collected by the MAFE project survey of migrants in Europe and return migrants in their countries of origin, this article aims to analyse, first, the initial return intentions of Senegalese and Congolese migrants to Europe, and second, the realization of those intentions. The results reveal that at the time of their arrival...

Depuis le début des années 2000, la littérature relative à la migration de retour en général s’est considérablement développée [Carling et al., 2011], mais les études sur les retours de migrants d’Afrique en particulier restent relativement peu nombreuses. La question du retour des migrants africains suscite pourtant un intérêt croissant auprès des décideurs...

Dans la conclusion, l’auteure propose une lecture personnelle des diférentes contributions de ce numéro à travers un double exercice de mise en perspective théorique, en s’appuyant sur ses propres recherches sur les retours en contexte africain. Dans un premier temps, elle fait ressortir la manière dont les articles mettent en lien les concepts de « retour »...

Cette recherche se situe au niveau des migrants eux-mêmes. Elle a l’ambition de comprendre leurs aspirations et leurs choix, en particulier les stratégies qu’ils développent en fonction de leur situation, des opportunités qui se présentent à eux, et du contexte dans lequel ils se trouvent. Le contexte peut se présenter comme une contrainte et limiter les...

Based on 68 qualitative interviews carried out in Senegal and DR Congo with beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of programs assisting migrants after their return to their origin country, this article investigates how these programs affect the reintegration of those migrants. It uses an original approach, combining a qualitative thematic analysis of the...

In 2019, the IOM Regional Data Hub (RDH) for the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) launched a multistage research project aimed at better understanding the experiences, decision-making, perceptions and expectations of young Ethiopians along the Eastern Route regarding their migration. The first two stages of the research project were carried out in Obock...

El presente documento describe la creación y puesta en marcha de un modelo de reintegración social, económico y empático para el migrante en retorno. En él, se establece una herramienta metodológica que atiende las problemáticas que los migrantes enfrentan a su regreso, de manera diferenciada. Su propósito es garantizar su plena reincorporación a la vida...

More than six million people have been deported from the United States since 1996. The Dominican Republic is one of the top ten countries to which deportees are sent. Most scholarship on deportation focuses on the challenges deportees face post-deportation. There is also a long history of scholarship on how migrants draw from social, human and financial...

Although there is a substantial and growing volume of research on the return and reintegration processes of migrants, insufficient attention has been paid to the contextual meaning of reintegration, in particular for those returning to rural areas. Accordingly, based on an extensive literature review complemented with insights from forced returnees and...

In Africa, international migration to the Global North is often interpreted as a means to achieve upward social mobility. This article highlights the importance of considering the socio-economic and political transformations that form migration aspirations, especially among African youths. Simultaneously, increasing restrictive migration regimes impacts the...

This article seeks to understand the role of the migration lifecycle in the subjective evaluation of return by Ethiopian deportees from Saudi Arabia, focusing on the conditions that lead to positive evaluation of the return. Logistic regression analysis was carried out on a unique data set of 2,039 Ethiopian deportees from Saudi Arabia collected in 2014...