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The widespread recognition of the diaspora’s role in development has led to an increase in diaspora policy development and programmes attempting to leverage the good will and resources of emigrants. The diaspora has the potential to make substantial contributions, and the most recognized of these... Read More
Multisectoral coordination mechanisms are some of the strategies that have been found effective in promoting the health of migrants and their host communities, while at the same time strengthening collaboration and coordination among stakeholders. Since 2008, IOM has supported the establishment of... Read More
The report points to the transformative potential of regional integration and human mobility for the socioeconomic development of the region. Trade and labour mobility are some of the key benefits of regional integration and human mobility. Integrated border management, especially through One-Stop... Read More
Migrants, particularly those living with disability, have often been described as a hidden and hard-to-reach population. A scoping exercise was conducted to shed more light on the nature of migration and disability, with a focus on the extent to which migrants living with disability are included in... Read More
La Communauté économique des États d’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) et ses États membres adoptent de plus en plus de mesures et de politiques visant à maximiser les avantages potentiels de la migration pour le développement. Ce chapitre analyse les relations entre les États membres de la CEDEAO et... Read More
Le présent chapitre traite des risques que courent les migrants lorsqu'ils traversent le Sahara. Alors que les sources de données sur les expériences vécues par les migrants dans le Sahara sont rares, cette analyse s'appuie sur des données provenant de l'OIM et du Mixed Migration Centre. Il ressort... Read More
Ce chapitre étudie les liens entre la migration moderne et les mouvements de transhumance existant de longue date en Mauritanie. Dans ce pays, les éleveurs ont de tout temps pratiqué la transhumance interne et transfrontalière pour optimiser l’accès à l’eau et aux pâturages, ce qui leur a permis de... Read More
Le présent chapitre étudie l’utilisation des mégadonnées pour évaluer les « facteurs de répulsion » mensuels des migrations liées à l’asile à l’échelle nationale. Il s’intéresse en outre à la question de savoir s’il existe une corrélation entre, d’une part, les estimations de ces facteurs dans les... Read More
Les candidats à la migration originaires d’Afrique sont moins susceptibles de migrer vers leurs destinations internationales préférées que d’autres migrants. Le présent chapitre étudie les aspirations et les intentions en matière de migration, ainsi que les migrations effectives de ressortissants... Read More
Le présent chapitre fournit une vue d’ensemble des tendances et schémas migratoires au Niger entre janvier 2016 et décembre 2019. Les tendances migratoires ont radicalement changé avec l’application de la loi no 2015-36, qui a criminalisé la migration irrégulière. Les routes migratoires se sont... Read More
Le présent chapitre propose une analyse descriptive des tendances en matière d’arrivées de migrants et de réfugiés en Italie et en Espagne entre janvier 2018 et juin 2019. Il étudie les grandes tendances mensuelles des arrivées en 2018 et au premier semestre de 2019 ainsi que les signes de... Read More
Le présent chapitre offre une analyse descriptive des données relatives à la migration issues de la plateforme publicitaire de Facebook pour le continent africain. Il fournit une estimation du nombre de migrants en Afrique, et une ventilation par pays d’origine et par sexe. D’après les données... Read More
Entre 2014 et 2016, lorsqu’un nombre inédit de réfugiés et de migrants dépourvus de documents sont arrivés en Europe par voie maritime, une carte du quart nord-ouest du continent africain est apparue dans les médias européens. Y figuraient plusieurs lignes ou flèches s’étendant du golfe de Guinée à... Read More
En quelques mois seulement, la pandémie de COVID-19 a radicalement changé le paysage mondial des migrations et de la mobilité, et complexifié encore les migrations en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Nord et via la Méditerranée. La crise sanitaire, qui se propage
The Africa Migration Report takes a distinctly regional approach to inform knowledge on migration in Africa. This first edition, titled Challenging the Narrative, aims to deconstruct negative perceptions of migration in Africa by addressing contextual realities and bringing to light practical... Read More
In just a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the global migration and mobility landscape, and added a layer of complexity to migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean. This rapidly spreading health crisis (Figure 1) has led to the implementation of... Read More
In the years 2014–2016, when arrivals of undocumented migrants and refugees arriving by sea to Europe surged to unprecedented numbers, a map of the north-west quarter of Africa made an appearance in European media. The map showed several lines,or arrows, spanning the Gulf of Guinea to the... Read More
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its Member States are increasingly adopting policies and measures aiming at maximizing possible benefits of migration for development. This chapter analyses how ECOWAS Member States engage with their diasporas. It draws on an analysis of... Read More
This chapter explores the links between modern migration and long-standing transhumance movements in Mauritania. In the country, livestock farmers have for a long time practiced internal and cross-border transhumance, to optimize access to water and pasture. This has allowed them to cope with harsh... Read More
This chapter explores the use of big data to estimate monthly country-level “push factors” of asylum-related migration. It also looks at whether estimates of push factors in countries of origin correlate with traditional data on irregular migration on the CentralMediterranean Route and asylum... Read More
This chapter explores the risks that migrants face when crossing the Sahara Desert. While data sources on the experiences of migrants in the Sahara are scarce, this analysis relies on data from IOM and the Mixed Migration Centre. The chapter finds that trans-Saharan migration poses risks, both... Read More
Aspiring migrants from Africa are less likely than other migrants to migrate to their preferred international migration destinations. This chapter explores migration aspirations and intentions, and actual migration of citizens of 18 North and West African countries, paying particular attention to... Read More
This chapter provides an overview of migration trends and patterns in the Niger from January 2016 to December 2019. Migration trends shifted drastically after the implementation of the 2015-36 Law, which criminalized irregular migration. Migration routes became more fragmented and outgoing flows... Read More
This chapter provides a descriptive analysis of migrant and refugee arrival trends in Italy and Spain from January 2018 to June 2019. The chapter explores major monthly trends in arrivals in 2018 and the first half of 2019, and indications of potential rerouting between the Central Mediterranean... Read More
This chapter presents a descriptive analysis of migration-related data from Facebook’s Advertising Platform for the African continent. It provides an estimate of the raw number of migrants in Africa, and a disaggregation by country of origin and by sex. According to the data, the total number of “... Read More
This edited volume provides comprehensive evidence on migration from and within West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean.
It highlights migrants’ agency and contribution to transnational development, as well as the inequalities that shape migration and the risks that migrants are exposed... Read More
This report analyses good practices in migration data capacity building by looking at recent efforts by international organizations to enhance the capacity of National Statistical Systems (NSS) and other national agencies to collect, manage and disseminate official statistics on migration, thereby... Read More
Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A global review of the emerging evidence base (Volume 2) presents a unique review of what is being collected and what can be done to further build the evidence base on migrant smuggling globally. The second volume on the topic, and building on the 2016 report,... Read More
This World Migration Report update provides an overview of the latest data on international migrants in Africa. It is based on the most recent estimates from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Released in December 2017, the international migrant stock datasets... Read More
Trafficking in human beings (THB) and smuggling of migrants (SoM), two distinct but often interrelated phenomena, occur on a global scale. Searching for a way out of economic inequalities, environmental crises, armed conflict, political instability and persecution, and in view of tightening border... Read More
International Migration is a refereed bimonthly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited by Carleton University and published and distributed by Wiley... Read More
Southern Africa is a region vulnerable to a range of hazards, currently experiencing one of the worst drought disasters and food security crisis in modern history. Subject to development challenges, including economic and human development, the region’s vulnerability to disasters is further... Read More
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat, with support from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), is supporting COMESA Member States to move towards the full implementation of the COMESA Protocol on the Gradual Relaxation and Eventual Elimination of Visas... Read More
O Guia Regional para a Facilitação da Mobilidade Laboral Sul-Sul na África Austral oferece recomendações para auxiliar os Estados-Membros da Comunidade para o Desenvolvimento da África Austral (SADC) a desenvolverem soluções de políticas nacionais e abordagens visando a uma melhor governação da... Read More
The Regional Guide to Facilitate South–South Labour Mobility in Southern Africa offers recommendations to assist the Southern African Development Community Member States to develop national policy solutions and approaches towards improved governance of labour migration within the Southern Africa... Read More
The Regional Guide to Facilitate South–South Labour Mobility in Southern Africa offers recommendations to assist the Southern African Development Community Member States to develop national policy solutions and approaches towards improved governance of labour migration within the Southern Africa... Read More
The IOM African Capacity Building Centre (ACBC) is an IOM training institution that provides capacity-building support in migration management in Africa.
This Annual Report describes a selection of ACBC interventions from June 2014 to December 2015 and provides an outlook for more works to come.
The new issue of Migration Policy Practice focuses on expected migration trends in the Global South, namely Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Gulf and Latin America. Much media and policy attention is currently focused on the rise in migration flows to Europe. But how is migration changing in the... Read More
Over the past ten years IOM’s experience in accompanying governments through programmes, initiatives, studies and numerous conferences concerning Migration for Development in Africa (MIDA) and similar initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific have demonstrated that... Read More
International Migration is a refereed quarterly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of... Read More
This report draws on findings from a survey of 1,000 Zimbabweans living in the United Kingdom and South Africa. It examines the education and employment skills base of respondents on arrival in either the United Kingdom or South Africa and their educational qualifications and employment at the time... Read More
This study sheds some light into the kinds of relationships that Angolans living in Portugal and South Africa keep with their country of origin, focusing on the financial remittances that they send back to Angola, as well as on aspects such as the level of organization and the transnational... Read More
International Migration is a refereed bimonthly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of... Read More
This study explores policies and programmes aimed at facilitating remittances inflows through formal channels and leveraging remittances for development in Lesotho. The study also looks into regulations and laws on remittances. In order to answer key questions of this study, questionnaires were... Read More
What will the key migration policy challenges be in various regions of the world in the course of 2015? Are the levels and structure of migration flows likely to evolve, for example in terms of types of migration, source countries, and number and profiles of migrants? And what will be the key... Read More
Migration Policy Practice welcomes the opportunity to publish a selection of some of the most noteworthy papers discussed at the 13th plenary meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration. The meeting examined the realities of the current global protection system and set out to identify gaps... Read More
An action oriented training manual on gender, migration and HIV.
In the Southern African region, which is especially ravaged by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, certain mobile population groups (e.g. truck drivers, migrant workers) are particularly vulnerable to the spread of the virus. This report presents an analysis of the situation in eight SADC countries and lists... Read More
International migration is at an all-time high. However, government officials, policy makers, NGO advocates, academic researchers and international agencies have only recently begun to consider the human rights dimension of migration. Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed over 50... Read More
The present document gives a first overview of organizations in Africa dealing with migrant and mobile populations in the context of HIV/AIDS. It briefly describes the methods used for gathering data, then gives a general description of the programmes listed and the major "lessons learned" by the... Read More