Retorno y reintegración

This report is the result of an external evaluation of IOM’s Regional Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programme for Stranded Migrants in Egypt and Libya (RAVEL) program conducted by five students from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva in collaboration with IOM. RAVEL is a regional AVRR program...

This booklet is a resource for stakeholders in government and civil society from the Caribbean region who desire to improve domestic legislation and policy that work to comprehensively address the crime of trafficking in persons.

This study was conducted between November 2007 and January 2008, with the aim to assess the mental health and psychosocial needs of Iraqis displaced in Jordan and Lebanon, to investigate the provision of services available to them, and plan interventions addressing their needs. The research has a double-fold objective: provide all humanitarian actors with...

IOM has had some 13 years of experience in implementing counter-trafficking activities. This Handbook summarizes and systematizes this experience. IOM recognizes that each victim is unique and requires and desires different assistance. As well, the nature of trafficking is different around the world and is ever evolving, requiring changing responses...

This manual is based on the findings drawn from the project Coping with Return aimed to contribute to the joint efforts by the enlarged EU in facilitating the sustainable return of asylum seekers through an integrated approach to voluntary return, with particular emphasis on vulnerable groups of migrants. It is particularly relevant to people who work with...

This study focuses on women and adolescent girls who have been trafficked within, to and from East and Southern Africa (ESA). It is the first study in ESA to focus specifically on the links between trafficking of women and sexual, reproductive and mental health (SRMH). With regard to health, special attention is paid to HIV since all countries in ESA are...

In this overview paper, basic questions related to voluntary internal migration are revisited with a view to adding some of the substantial new field evidence that has emerged in recent years and setting out the policy implications of these findings. The paper addresses internal voluntary migration for paid work. It includes both permanent and temporary...

This report compares the experiences of a selection of existing assisted return programmes for rejected asylum-seekers and irregular migrants, and draws lessons from them for future programmes. Specifically, the report focuses on three aspects: programme implementation, the targeting of assistance, and evaluation. In each case it analyses the experiences of...

This study looks at the return and reintegration of returning migrants from western Europe to their countries of origin in the South Caucases. Its main aim was to study the process of return and reintegration of migrants in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, and to assess the impact of the return of migrants on their families and communities.

This Handbook aims to provide practical guidance on the design, implementation and monitoring of reintegration assistance for returnees. While reintegration is a process taking place in different return contexts (for example following spontaneous, forced or assisted voluntary returns, or internal displacement), the Handbook focuses on assistance provided to...