International Organization for Migration

This report is a collective publication comprising a review of international literature on the subject of migrant deskilling and underemployment from a gender perspective and three empirical case...

Human trafficking has become a global business, reaping huge profits for traffickers and organized crime syndicates, generating massive human rights violations, and causing serious problems for...

This report is an up-to-date study of the Meskhetians, an ethnic group of Muslim background forcibly relocated from Georgia to Siberia and Central Asia during the Stalin era. Based on interviews with...

More than 2 million Southerners have returned to South Sudan since 2005, following the end of the North–South civil war. Building on research conducted in South Sudan, as well as Egypt and northern...

Remittances are an integral feature of the internal migration process in China. In order to understand the contributions remittances can make to development and the ways in which potential benefits...

More than 1 million Bangladeshis live permanently outside the country and some 200,000 or more leave the country every year to work elsewhere. Most of these migrants send part of their earnings home...

This study looks at the need to strengthen the recognition and protection of migrant human rights in international and national law. It discusses the main obstacles that make it difficult for migrants...

The 2006 crisis in Timor-Leste saw close to 15 per cent of the population displaced from their homes. This study looks at the National Recovery Strategy (NRS) adopted by the government to resolve...

This publication explores different challenges posed to home and host country governments engaging with their diasporas for development purposes. How to define diasporas? How to gather data on...

This three-volume course manual is a stand-alone tool for independent study, written in a non-technical manner, which provides an overview of the key elements of international migration management. It...

This survey analyzes the situation of the Russian-speaking population in Estonia and how the break-up of the Soviet Union and their becoming non-citizens has influenced their attitudes towards...