The IOM Regional Office for the East and Horn of Africa hosted (11-13 of April) a Regional Stocktaking workshop in Nairobi (Kenya) on the evidence on migrant protection and reintegration in the Horn of Africa.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, a growing number of Horn of Africa migrants have been observed moving towards the southern part of the continent and in particular South Africa, a migration corridor known as the Southern Route. This is the second report in...
The Eastern and Horn of Africa region is one of the world’s most dynamic areas in terms of migration, driven by a complex interplay of economic, social, and security factors. Migrants and mobile populations in this region face numerous challenges in accessing...
Trafficking in persons constitutes a grave crime against the individual. The absence of comprehensive data presents a major issue, including in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Many cases go unreported as victims are too afraid to testify...
Irregular migration can be a dangerous, degrading process that deprives migrants of their intrinsic worth and rights as human beings. Too often, on the routes through Africa and across the Mediterranean, human smugglers, traffickers and others take advantage...
Using the example of European Somalis moving to Kenya, this article argues that although these middle class return migrants share many similarities, they also differ in significant ways. Focusing on economically independent migrants, this paper will show that...
Among the different stages of the migration process, return is the one which is least well understood. The motives guiding return cannot be easily categorized and are highly context dependent (Bastia, 2011). Scholars and policymakers have focused on...
Emprendida en diciembre de 2016, con el apoyo del Fondo Fiduciario de Emergencia para África de la Unión Europea, la Iniciativa Conjunta UE-OIM es el primer programa global que reúne a países africanos, OIM y UE en torno al objetivo común de garantizar que las migraciones sean más seguras, se apoyen en mejor información y estén sujetas a una mejor gobernanza, tanto para los migrantes como para sus comunidades.
This report, the product of a four-month study by students at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris, is an evaluation of the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) ‘Integrated Project for the Return and Reintegration of 500 LRA reporters...
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...