The aim of this study are to map out of the characteristics of the current and developing smuggling networks that have Canada as a final destination and assess the vulnerabilities and exploitation that migrants are exposed to during their journeys. The study focuses on assessing migrant vulnerabilities, protection needs and exposure to exploitation before...
Return and Reintegration
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Each year, Afghans return from the neighbouring Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan. Once back in country, with the over-stretched absorption capacity of host communities, reintegration challenges are daunting. Primary challenges include food insecurity, access to land, long-term shelter, access to services including health, education and legal assistance...
This paper provides practical insights into the broad thematic issues surrounding integration and social cohesion in order to assist IOM Member States and partners prepare towards the negotiation phase of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). A number of specific actions and effective practices are identified as potential...
The World Migration Report presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration issues, and is structured to focus on two key contributions for readers: Part I: key information on migration and migrants (including migration-related statistics); and Part II: balanced, evidence-based analysis of complex and...
Since 2007, IOM has been contributing to the stabilization of Iraq by improving the resilience of communities and promoting social cohesion. IOM aims to achieve this through a comprehensive approach to transition and recovery that encompasses five main outcome areas.
This paper proposes that the complex, multidimensional process of reintegration requires a holistic and a need-based approach: one that takes into consideration the various factors impacting an individual’s reintegration, including economic, social, and psychosocial factors across individual, community, and structural dimensions.
In 2017, IOM invited the world’s leading migration researchers to join in sharing their expertise and knowledge in support of the 2018 global compact on safe, orderly and regular migration. We designed the Syndicate to take into account a range of factors, including the ambitious timeframe set for the global compact for migration, the wealth of expertise of...
Return migration takes place along a spectrum from voluntary to involuntary movement, with at least six identifiable points. Solicited, Voluntary, Reluctant, Pressured, Obliged, Forced.
This paper outlines the existing approaches and key gaps faced by States and stakeholders involved in supporting the reintegration of migrants returning to their home countries, and makes recommendations for concrete actions and commitments that could be included in the Global Compact on Migration.
The study draws on a combination of in-depth interviews and analysis of survey data collected by IOM. The study concentrates on the experiences of Bangladeshi migrants who were involved in the Andaman Sea Crisis, as this is the group that have been assisted to return to Bangladesh by IOM.
This document provides an overview of the IOM's programmes addressing the needs of migrant children.
Globally, the forcibly displaced population increased in 2017 by 2.9 million. By the end of the year, 68.5 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, or generalized violence. As a result, the world’s forcibly displaced population remained yet again at a record high.
This study was carried out by Altai Consulting for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) office in Morocco. It seeks to analyze assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) through a community based approach, the projects that exist in this area and the possibility to replicate them in the main countries of return from Morocco.
To ensure that all interventions were appropriately targeted, IOM conducted a detailed multi-sectoral profiling of all concerned communities, presented in this book. The information was gathered through key informants from local government authorities and community leaders, as well as by using direct observations and focus group discussions with community...
This study provides an overview of asylum procedure and the return of rejected asylum seekers in Austria. It focuses on asylum seekers who have already been rejected and the challenges to return rejected asylum seekers. In addition it elaborate the issues on rejected asylum seekers who cannot be removed for the time being.
This Framework is intended to guide IOM’s approach to the progressive resolution of displacement situations as part of its wider response to migration crises. The Framework integrates a mobility perspective and recognizes the impacts of crisis and displacement on displaced populations, as well as on other migrants and affected populations.
This study was commissioned to explore the situation of trafficking in human beings (THB) and the experience of men Victims of Trafficking (VoT) for labour exploitation from Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus, and the Republic of Moldova. This study was commissioned by the International Organization for Migration Mission (IOM) in Ukraine with financial support...
Collecting the stories of migrant youth throughout the region is part of IOM’s mission to increase visibility of this human calamity and to sensitize and invite reflection on the harsh reality facing these populations. The IOM, through its Regional Mesoamerica Programme, hopes that this book serves as a tool for building the capacities of government and...
This study is seeking to establish the precise needs of vulnerable migrants and capacities of state institutions and non-state entities to address these vulnerabilities and leveraging the potential for the vulnerable migrants’ successful re-integration into the local labour market. In addition, risk factors limiting chances for migrants’ re-integration and...
This study looks into the day-to-day living conditions of migrant workers and their families, at their vulnerability to exploitation, abuses and deportation. This is particularly the case of undocumented migrants; however, documented migrants may also suffer from abuses or violations, and may have safety and health concerns in their workplace.