United Nations human rights operations have an essential role to fill in monitoring and protecting the human rights of returnees and internally displaced persons. People displaced within their own country can be particularly vulnerable to violations of their human rights and may need a specific form of human rights protection. Human rights officers can...
Retorno y reintegración
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OHCHR, as co-chair of the GMG Working Group on Migration, Human Rights and Gender, has led the development of a set of principles and guidelines on the human rights protection of migrants in vulnerable situations. Migrants who fall outside the specific legal category of "refugee" may find themselves in vulnerable situations because of the reasons for leaving...
Defining ‘protection’ under international law, and responding to the protection needs of migrants under international human rights law.
This publication offers a rich resource for policymakers in Governments, national human rights institutions, civil society, lawyers, judges andmigrants themselves to understand the scope and content of the humanrights of migrants in an irregular situation. Through a specific focuson economic, social and cultural rights.
The current thesis seeks to analyse if rejected asylum seekers, who return from Norway to Russia, do have possibilities for successful reintegration in their home region and if their return is sustainable. Research also aims to reveal main obstacles for successful reintegration as well as internal and external factors, which facilitate or complicate the...
The objective of this study is to increase understandings of reintegration, including an examination of the processes of reintegration, and how different return migrants reintegrate. The primary research question guiding the study is: How, and to what extent, do different return migrants reintegrate upon return?
This thesis takes a transnational and multidimensional approach in order to overcome the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration–development–peace-building nexus. It uses the concept of multidimensional embeddedness, which provides an encompassing perspective on...
Governments in reception countries embrace (voluntary) assisted returns for several reasons. Such returns are seen as more humane, less costly and they spark less controversy than forced returns. For the rejected migrants themselves, voluntary assisted return is often seen as one of several unappealing alternatives. This study is based on two sources of data...
Migrating children is not a new phenomenon: children have fled their homes for centuries to reach safe havens away from poverty, conflict, and disaster. With increased globalization, escalated global warming, and transitioning economies, we are likely to see greater flows of Children on the Move in the future. While there are existing policies and frameworks...
This report is part of the project “Nordic-Baltic Partnership with Passenger Ferry Companies to Encounter Trafficking in Human Beings on the Baltic Sea”. The project, launched in October 2015, is coordinated by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), and is supported financially by the Nordic Council of Ministers and its programme against...
This report examines the right to effective remedies for victims of trafficking in persons under international law, the scope of its application, and the challenges that arise. It concludes by providing practical recommendations for improving access to remedies for victims of trafficking in persons.
The present monitoring report provides an overview of the feedback forms collected from Nigerian program participants who were visited between March 2011 and December 2014. It includes a brief presentation of the respondents’ profile, a descriptive analysis of the information gathered on program beneficiaries’ return and reintegration experience, as well as...
This report assesses the impact on children of being returned from Europe to Afghanistan. Through interviews with individual children, their parents or guardians, and with governmental and non-governmental actors, it builds a picture of children’s material, physical, legal and psychosocial safety during the returns process. Returns processes implemented by...
The purpose of this study is to provide an updated overview of children and youth as specific (albeit non-homogenous) groups in mixed migration flows within, through and from the Horn of Africa. The report does not purport to be exhaustive, but rather to act as a preliminary study which identifies some of the key trends, characteristics, issues and response...
Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) is a central component of European Union (EU) member states migration management policies and has grown in popularity over the past two decades. At present, all EU member states have active AVR programmes, however, despite the growing prevalence of these programmes there has been a dearth of research and evaluation on AVR. In...
In 2015 the International Organization for Migration (IOM) identified almost 1,200 trafficked migrants working in slave-like conditions on fishing boats in East Indonesia. The IOM helped the migrants and offered to cover the cost of repatriation to their countries of citizenship. The Indonesian government appreciated the financial support, not least because the...
Using data from the Statistics on Income and living conditions of families with migrants carried out by ISTAT in 2009, we empirically examine the effect of micro level determinants on Moroccans’ return migration intentions. Although Moroccans living in Italy do not have a clear aspiration to return, the socio‐economic and work conditions in Italy determine...
Current migration studies and policy reviews neglect the vital link between migration experiences of labour migrants and their return and reintegration process. The objective of this study is to highlight the phenomenon and bring the matter to policy makers’ attention. This study uses in-depth interviews and a series of focus group discussions to explore the...
This article analyses international policy discussions on migration and development (M&D) and contrasts these with the actual M&D policies and practices of 11 European countries who were among the main proponents of this international discourse. Desk research of public documents and accompanying information sought from these 11 governments as well as in the...
Using the ECM2 survey data on Ecuadorian migrants returning from Spain, we investigate the determinants of reintegration upon return. We study how the migration experience, but also the before‐ and after‐migration characteristics, correlate with migrants’ outcomes upon return. We adopt a broad conception of reintegration, considering jointly labour market...