All publications: return migration
Migrant workers
Comprehensive mapping and assessment of reintegration measures in South Asian Colombo process Member States
This report has been jointly commissioned by ILO and IOM under the Governance of Labour Migration in South and Southeast Asia (GOALS) programme in collaboration with UN-Women and seeks to map out and assess the nature and gaps in the reintegration...
Labour migration
Factsheet: Employment and Reintegration (ERN) in Nigeria Project
Factsheet details activities and impact of the ERN Project
Training material
Basic English for Workplace Communication
Training manual equipped with a students’ book, a teacher’s guide, and a training of trainers’ guide that aims to improve the English language proficiency of potential migrants and migrants and enable them to become more competitive in the labour...
Guidelines on labour market reintegration upon return in origin countries
The process of reintegration into the labour market is complex and dynamic, requiring labour market opportunities, infrastructure, enabling policies, financial and non -financial services, access to assets, education, and healthcare. These...
Labour migration
Joint Programme on Labour Migration Governance for Development and Integration in Africa (JLMP)
The AU-ILO-IOM-UNECA Joint Programme on Labour Migration Governance for Development and Integration in Africa (JLMP), launched in 2015 aims to strengthen labour migration governance in Africa. Several projects are being implemented by the ILO under...
Migrant workers
Reduced Vulnerability of Returnee Migrant Workers through Linkages to Employment Opportunities and Integration into Local Economic...
Assessment Study on the Skills of Returned Myanmar Migrants
The Assessment Study on the Skills of Returned Myanmar Migrants was conducted in November 2019 prior to the return of Myanmar workers due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
TRIANGLE in ASEAN
ASEAN guidelines on effective return and reintegration
On 13 November 2020, ASEAN has adopted a set of guiding principles for the ASEAN Member States on policies, institutional mechanisms, and programmes and services required for ensuring effective and sustainable return and reintegration of migrant...
TRIANGLE in ASEAN
Effective return and reintegration of migrant workers with special focus on ASEAN Member States
This report was prepared as the background document for the ASEAN Workshop on Reintegration Programmes for Returning Migrant Workers (27–28 August 2019) in Yogyakarta, organized by the Ministry of Manpower, Government of Indonesia, and the ILO...
Support to the Reintegration of Returnees in Ethiopia - brochure
Support to the Reintegration of Returnees in Ethiopia: Programme achievement
Brochure: Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205)
This brochure contains the full text of Recommendation No. 205.
Guiding principles on the access of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons to the labour market
Guiding principles to support policy responses that promote access to decent work for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons, while protecting national workers and host communities.
Durable solutions for Somali refugee returnees and IDPs in Baidoa through promoting immediate and sustainable livelihoods - Final...
Project SOM/15/02/JPN - Consultant: Charles Munene
Migrant workers
The homecoming: Profiling the returning migrant workers of Bangladesh
This study primarily develops a comprehensive profile of migrant workers who have returned to Bangladesh.
Skills for Green Jobs (Project fact sheet)
Since 2012 the ILO/Korea Partnerships Programme has conducted research, with a particular focus on understanding skills gaps and needs in the priority occupations. Two research exercises have been undertaken, one in Thailand and one in China. The...
Skills Recognition for Migrant Workers (Project fact sheet)
The ILO/Korea Partnership Programme’s work on the skills recognition for migrant workers dates back to 2006. The main objective of this project is to develop a more inclusive, flexible, accessible and transparent system for skills recognition that...
Employing returning migrant workers' to support their professional reintegration
Report
OHCHR Report - Migration and human rights: Improving human rights-based governance of international migration
Assessment of livelihood opportunities for returnees/internally displaced persons and host communities in Afghanistan
This study undertaken by ILO Kabul for UNHCR Afghanistan, provides an overview of the economic activities of returnees and host communities on 22 high-return sights across all regions of Afghanistan.
Women migrant workers
Going home, making good: Stories of triumph and hope as told by Filipino women migrant workers returned from the European Union and...
The book features personal narratives of some of the Philippine beneficiaries of a three-year Project of the International Labour Organization (ILO), supported by the European Union (EU) —“Going back – moving on: Economic and social empowerment of...