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 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...

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...

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 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...

Esta sistematización muestra la experiencia en el fortalecimiento de las capacidades institucionales en los municipios de Zacatecoluca, Usulután, San Miguel, Mejicanos, llevada a cabo por la OIM El Salvador. Con el fin de fortalecer la atención en el proceso de reintegración a migrantes retornados, se creó una Oficina Municipal de Atención a la Persona...

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 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 contains the written contributions as well as unofficial translations from the transcripts of the Round Table on International Migration Law and Policies which took place in Dakar, Senegal, 8-9 December 2009.

The purpose of this report is to provide the reader with a brief understanding of what constitutes ‘return information provision’ within the framework of return programmes. It will outline the key elements that return information provision activities often exhibit, and in doing so, will focus on a particular IOM project, namely the “Enhanced and Integrated...

The Eastern Route, which runs from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, in particular to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), has long been the most relevant migratory corridor in terms of volume and characteristics in the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) region. Mobility along this route is mixed in nature, with different categories of people on the...

Around the world, the challenges posed by forced displacement and migration are mounting. Yet international cooperation in this policy area is stagnating […] Simultaneously the economic and political importance of cities is growing worldwide […] In this context, the international debate on migration policy increasingly views cities as potential game changers...

This national study has been produced within the framework of the European Migration Network. It provides information about the terminology concerning Assisted Return in Austria and offers a broad overview of the legal framework, Assisted Return measures and available data mainly focusing on the year 2009.

Under the framework of the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH), the seminar "Fostering and strengthening interlinkages between sustainable development and reintegration programmes" was held on 1 and 2 December, 2021. During this event key interlinkages between reintegration and development were discussed, and experiences acquired from the implementation of...

The study gives an overview of the EU Member States' experience in organising and practically implementing assisted voluntary return programmes. The study aims at summarising the experience of the EU Member States referring to the principles of historical and structural analysis. The survey first defines the general concept of voluntary return and models of...