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The return and reintegration of migrant workers back to their home countries marks the end of their migration cycle. While extensive work has been done on ensuring effective migration laws and policies, pre-departure training, and research on working...
The reintegration of voluntary returnees from Finland to their countries of origin has been moderately sustainable, according to a survey conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Finland. While slightly more sustainable outcomes were...
The report draws on field research on Afghan returnees that the Co-Founder of Samuel Hall has carried out since 2008. Beyond examining current return trends to Afghanistan and the characteristics of those returning, chiefly from Europe, it considers the return...
Hundreds of thousands of documented and undocumented refugees returned to Afghanistan in 2016, joining more than one million internally displaced within the country. International agencies warn of a humanitarian crisis that would affect hundreds of thousands...
This report, prepared and conducted by Samuel Hall under the Mediterranean Sustainable Reintegration (MEASURE) Project, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), outlines recommendations to support sustainable reintegration of migrants...
The relationship between migration and development is a key topic for research and policy. Earlier pessimistic perspectives focused on the threat to development of poorer countries through the loss of human resources. Recently, a more optimistic view has been...
The primary purpose of this handbook is to expand on project workers’ understanding of how to help trafficked children in schemes supported by members of the Terre des hommes International Federation (TdhIF) and their local partners. Ideally, the material will...
A study on "best practices in the field of the return of minors" was carried out by ECRE, in strategic partnership with Save the Children, on behalf of the European Commission. The study looked at legislation and practice regarding the return of children...
This paper studies migrants’ intentions to return to their origin country by making the distinction between permanent return, temporary return and participation in temporary return programmes. Using survey data from first generation migrants in the Netherlands...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This report aims to provide an overview of return and circular migration flows currently occurring in Afghanistan. The objectives of this report are to: i. clarify the current types of return migration flows to Afghanistan; ii. provide information on these...
El objetivo general del proyecto es contribuir a la reintegración sostenible de las personas migrantes que retornan y a la consecución progresiva del Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 10.7 de facilitar la migración y la movilidad ordenadas, seguras, regulares y responsables de las personas, incluso mediante la aplicación de políticas planificadas y bien gestionadas en Bangladesh.
La OIM desarrolló el proyecto de Asistencia para la Reintegración y el Desarrollo en Afganistán para apoyar la reintegración sostenible de los migrantes que retornan en las comunidades a las que regresan. El objetivo general del proyecto es contribuir a la...
When evacuated Bangladeshi migrants arrived home, the government, civil society, international organisations and the private sector cooperated to help them.
The report explores some of the issues, obstacles and opportunities related to the return and integration of women migrants who have experienced exploitative situation abroad, including forced labour and human trafficking. It is based on a series of interviews...
This information sheet aims to give a brief overview of the VARRP Reintegration Assistance programme under the New Approach from the end of October 2007 to the end of December 2009. The information given in this document is split into two parts. Part 1 gives...
Within the framework of Swiss return assistance programme, some asylum seekers opting for return to their country of origin may benefit from inkind reintegration assistance. Many of them choose to use the assistance granted by the Swiss State Secretariat for...