Retorno y reintegración

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...

European policymakers have renewed their commitment to increase returns of migrants determined not to have a right to stay in the European Union, and to cooperate with returnees’ countries of origin to support their reintegration. And as investments in assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) initiatives have grown, so too has pressure to...

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...

A webinar session on the “New research on sustainable reintegration outcomes: Forced returns, voluntary returns and gender” -organized by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH)- presented the newly launched study on Comparative Reintegration Outcomes between Forced and Voluntary Return and Through a Gender Perspective. Coordinated by the KMH with 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 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...

The return and readmission of migrants to their countries of origin, or third countries, and their reintegration into the societies and communities that receive them, are natural features of international mobility. More than ever, migration today is not a linear phenomenon starting with emigration and ending with permanent settlement in a new country. Rather...