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IOM’s partnerships with the private sector are diverse in thematic focus and recognize the active participation of the private sector in tackling today’s pressing migration opportunities and challenges. Leveraging the expertise, innovation and networks of the private sector is crucial to advancing... Read More
One of the first comprehensive studies on the subject, “Return Migration: Journey of Hope or Despair” addresses, through contributions from five different specialists, major issues of return migration, with a focus on the problematic return of irregular migrants, rejected asylum seekers and... Read More
The State of Environmental Migration series gathers the expertise of researchers, students and professionals to provide an annual assessment of the changing nature and dynamics of environment- and climate-related migration throughout the world.
Durante los últimos años, la experiencia de la OIM en el acompañamiento de gobiernos mediante programas, iniciativas, estudios y numerosas conferencias relativas a la Migración para el Desarrollo en África (MIDA) y otras iniciativas similares en América Latina y el Caribe, Asia y el Pacífico, ha... Read More
Le concours apporté depuis dix ans par l’OIM aux gouvernements sous la forme de programmes, mesures, études et conférences sur la migration pour le développement en Afrique (MIDA) et d’autres initiatives analogues en Amérique latine ainsi que dans les Caraïbes, en Asie et dans le Pacifique a fait... Read More
El municipio de Trujillo en el Valle del Cauca, tras sufrir los embates del conflicto, se ha convertido en un ejemplo de resistencia y reconciliación. El Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF), la Agencia de Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional y la OIM llevaron a cabo un... Read More
El proyecto Prodes (Asistencia integral para niños, niñas, jóvenes y familias desplazadas internas en Colombia) nació como una estrategia de intervención para mejorar la calidad de vida de comunidades desplazadas que habitan en Bogotá y Medellín, a través de tres componentes: educación, salud y... Read More
Claims programmes that provide for restitution of land and property rights, compensation or other remedies to victims of conflict and gross human rights violations, play an ever increasing role in reconciliation and rebuilding measures following a conflict or crisis. They are an important... Read More
Remittances are one of the most visible links between migrants and their countries of origin. They form a large share of global financial flows, often exceeding the amounts received as official development assistance and foreign direct investment. An important item in many national accounts, they... Read More
En este documento, tomando como base el concepto de sostenibilidad, se presentan una serie de guías con el fin de fortalecer la sostenibilidad de proyectos, que incluyen aspectos básicos a considerar durante el proceso de formulación de proyectos y negociación con contrapartes. Asímismo, se... Read More
The State of Environmental Migration series gathers the expertise of researchers, students and professionals to provide an annual assessment of the changing nature and dynamics of environment- and climate-related migration throughout the world.
The IOM Humanitarian Compendium provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of IOM’s humanitarian programming, as coordinated at the inter-agency level, and published in the Strategic Response Plans, Flash Appeals and IOM Appeals. Working in natural disasters, political conflicts and complex... Read More
The consequences of climate change for migration present humanity with an unprecedented challenge. Since the early 1990s, IOM has been active in the area of migration, climate change and the environment, and has carried out programmes to address this challenge in more than 40 countries in the... Read More
The toolkit was designed to provide a platform for information and actions that optimize preparedness and response actions to prevent and mitigate suffering of populations vulnerable to man-made or natural disasters. For this purpose, the tools were developed within the Rapid Assessment for... Read More
The toolkit was designed to provide a platform for information and actions that optimize preparedness and response actions to prevent and mitigate suffering of populations vulnerable to man-made or natural disasters. For this purpose, the tools were developed within the Rapid Assessment for... Read More
This book offers innovative insights on South–South human mobility. It features a collection of papers that highlight often overlooked mobility patterns among and within regions in the global South as well as address critical realities faced by South-South migrants.
International migration has reached the top of the global political agenda. In addition to nations and regional groups, the larger international community is struggling with the question of how best to manage international migration, especially with regard to development and human rights. There is... Read More
Prompted by the debates that took place during the 1992 Nyon Conference on “Migration and the Environment”, the International Symposium on “Environmentally Induced Population Displacements and Environmental Impacts Resulting from Mass Migrations” took place in April 1996 in Chavannes-des-Bogis,... Read More
Migration and Development: Within and Across Borders, is the outcome of an expert meeting organized jointly by the Social Science Resarch Council (SSRC), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Centre on Migration Policy and... Read More
Building on the results of the Psychosocial and Trauma Response programme started in 1999 in Kosovo, this new volume analyses the role played by artistic and theatrical activities in supporting traumatized communities, through the recounting of painful past experiences by individuals and groups... Read More
Migration and development are two complex and interrelated issues. While migration is frequently caused by underdevelopment, it may also present a vehicle to foster development and a means of escape from poverty. This collection sheds light on the migration-development nexus seen from many angles,... Read More
The close relationship between economic development and migration has been recognized for some time. In recent years, however, there has been a shift in thinking about the relationship between migration and development. Traditionally, migration was seen as a problem with negative implications for... Read More
The research presented in this volume was directed by Nina Nyberg Sorensen and is based on case studies from around the world to examine how migration influences development. The studies reveal that it is seldom the simple act of migrating, but rather the conditions under which migration takes... Read More
With an ever-increasing number of people on the move, migration and its effects will be defining features of societies and environment in the 21st century. Exposing the linkages between human mobility, the environment and disasters is especially relevant in the context of the post Hyogo Framework... Read More
Policymakers around the world are increasingly concerned about the likely impact of climate change and environmental degradation on the movement of people. This book takes a hard look at the existing evidence available to policymakers in different regions of the world. How much do we really know... Read More