Retorno y reintegración

The research has delivered useful insights into the differences between asylum seekers and irregular migrants as regards their migration behaviour in general and their plans concerning return and reintegration assistance in particular. The study suggests that the will to return among irregular migrants is greater than among (rejected) asylum seekers, who...

Migration Initiatives is the main publication illustrating both the wide scope of IOM activities and the impact that the Organization aims to have in migration governance worldwide. For the first time ever, Migration Initiatives 2016 is structured around the Migration Governance Framework principles and objectives to provide a comprehensive look at what IOM...

Responding to chronic labour shortages in the oil rich Arab states in the 1970s and 1980s, some Asian states have been among the first to develop an active overseas employment or labour migration policy that seeks to provide protection to its nationals working abroad, relieve domestic unemployment and augment foreign exchange earnings. This volume looks at...

La diversidad de las regiones de nuestro país y su riqueza cultural, haciendo especial énfasis en la institucionalidad que apoya los procesos de retorno de sus familias, para facilitar la construcción de sus proyectos de vida y la adaptación efectiva a la Colombia actual. Las historias de retorno con las que se construyó este libro son un símbolo del arraigo...

En el desarrollo del presente estudio se observa en detalle los diferentes instrumentos de protección a los que hacen referencia los derechos de los migrantes.

A partir de la idea de que la población retornada puede contribuir de manera significativa al desarrollo del país, aprovechando sus habilidades y conocimientos adquiridos en el exterior, esta Cartilla informa de manera actualizada a los colombianos residentes en el exterior que deseen o decidan regresar voluntariamente, acerca de las instituciones...

Salir o regresar ¡Al derecho! es una herramienta pedagógica que brinda a los migrantes potenciales o activos las herramientas necesarias para la toma informada de decisiones frente a su proceso migratorio y los sensibiliza frente a los riesgos asociados a la migración. Se construyó desde lo territorial, incluyendo las voces de las personas que en las...

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the main population movement trends that affected the East and Horn of Africa in 2018. The region continues to exhibit high mobility patterns, both internally within countries and across national boundaries. Migration is triggered by a complex mix of protracted crises, emerging internal conflicts, socio...

The International Organization for Migration continues to be actively involved in a number of Migrants' Assistance projects and Human Mobility data collection activities in the Horn of Africa (HoA) and in the Arab Peninsula. This report aims at providing an overvew of the trends observed in the first half of 2018 in the region, across Ethiopia, Somalia...

Thus far, 2018 has been historic in many ways. Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a landmark declaration of peace and friendship on 9 July, casting aside decades of hostility in a matter of weeks. The announcement of the end to the state of war was met by widespread jubilation in both countries, and was matched by concrete acts of rapprochement, which included...

This report aims to provide an overview of the trends observed in the second half of 2017 on the Western route across Yemen, Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia and was produced using data from IOM’s Migrants’ Assistance projects and Human Mobility data collection activities in the Horn of Africa and in the Arab Peninsula.

Despite the ongoing crisis that has forced millions of Iraqis flee their homes, the fact that hundreds of thousands of them are able to return to their places of origin is a sign of hope. However, while many may already back, putting an end to forced displacement, for most of them the situation upon returning remains extremely challenging. In order to better...

The report has been prepared as part of the Complex Reintegration Assistance for Assisted Voluntary Returnees to Kosovo (UNSCR 1244)1 project, co-funded by the 2013 Hungarian national allocation of the European Return Fund and the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, and implemented by IOM Hungary in cooperation with IOM Prishtina. The present document is...

Return triggers the uncertain process of reintegration. Evidence shows that the moment of return is the beginning of a process that takes time, is multidimensional and is often non-linear. This article published in Migration Policy Practice, Volume IX, no 1, delves deeper into the process of reintegration.

Persons who live in Switzerland under the asylum system who choose to return voluntarily to their country of origin are eligible to ask for support with reintegration. Since 2002, the project Reintegration Assistance from Switzerland (RAS), funded by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) and implemented by the International Organization for Migration...

Assisted voluntary return is a central component of many countries managed migration policies. Within these programmes achieving a sustainable return is a common policy goal, which is often measured through remigration. In this paper, it is argued that remigration is not a valid indicator to measure sustainable return. A new definition and approach to...

Return migration and migrant transnationalism are key phenomena in research on international migration. Here we examine how the two are connected. The article introduces a special section and draws partly upon this selection of papers and partly upon the broader literature. First, we argue that there is often a blurred boundary between mobility as a...

This document presents an analysis of interviews conducted with all individuals assisted in their voluntary return by IOM in 2017 and 2018 (65,000) to one of the 23 countries covered by the West and Central Africa region (WCA). The analysis combines datasets from both Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) and Voluntary Humanitarian returns (VHR)...

This Country Information Sheet is prepared by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission in Malta, with contributions from IOM The Gambia, within the framework of the project ‘Enhanced Cooperation between Malta and Migrants’ Countries of Origin. Lessons Learned and Sharing of Experience with Other European Countries’ (RF 2013-05)

This Country Information Sheet is an overview of Mali as the country of origin for returnees. Political situation, economic situation and employment, health care, and education systems of Mali are analized to provide information for IOM's operation of AVRR programs.