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...
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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...
In fiscal year 2017, the Department of Homeland Security returned nearly 75,000 migrants to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. We examined U.S. efforts to help migrants reintegrate into their home countries—such as by helping them reestablish psychological...
Around the world, nearly 50 million children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced. This report presents – for the first time – comprehensive, global data about these children – where they are born, where they move and some of the dangers...
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...
Certain immigrant-receiving countries have for decades employed policies to encourage unauthorized immigrants to return to their home countries without the cost, legal barriers, and political obstacles of removals or forced returns. Noncoercive, pay-to-go...
The report offers a range of recommendations to governments and others, including: Prepare migrants for reintegration prior to their return, even before deportation; issue primary ID documents from abroad or upon reception; and ensure reintegration services...
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...
Return migration is not always a ‘natural’ process or a matter of simply going home. Particularly forced migrants, who return involuntarily, face several obstacles upon return. This report argues that return can only be sustainable when returnees have the...
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 present research was conducted as part of the Project “Monitoring the situation of children returned from EU Member States” – co-funded by the European Union’s Return Fund – aiming to document, analyze and improve the situation of children that have been...
This report seeks to identify how the Dutch government deals with rejected asylum seekers. The report shall further examine what measures have been taken to bring about returning rejected asylum seekers successfully. It also addresses the group of asylum...
This research report provides an overview of the current state of affairs in the field of assisted return of asylum seekers who have exhausted all legal remedies and other foreign nationals in the Netherlands. The research was performed within the context of...
The return of illegally-staying third-country nationals is one of the main pillars of the EU’s policy on migration and asylum. However, recent Eurostat data show that return rates at EU level have not improved despite the important increase in the number of...
This report was commissioned by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and considers international experiences with assisted return of rejected asylum seekers from selected northern European countries. It documents lessons learned and best practices from...
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 32/14, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as Co-Chair of the Global Migration Group Working Group on Migration, Human Rights and...
This report presents a progress review and update on durable solutions programming in displacement-affected communities in three urban centres in Somalia: Mogadishu, Baidoa and Kismayo. It is a follow up from the solutions analyses conducted in the same...
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge...
Based on the most recent developments in Europe, Anna Knoll with Andrew Sherriff at the European Center for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) have written an EBA-report high-lighting a number of key issues concerning the development and migration nexus...
We are in the midst of a profound ‘returns-first’ shift in the global politics of child displacement. In response to soaring numbers of displaced worldwide –68.5 million, of which more than half are children – governments around the world are increasingly...