Lockdown Film Club is an IOM’s initiative to keep us all entertained, educated and connected to the issue we care so much about: migration. In this website people can have access to short films and documentaries that participated in the 2020 IOM’s Global Migration Film Festival.

Disaster displacement and environmental migration are among the most serious humanitarian challenges facing the Caribbean. As a subregion of small island developing States (SIDS) which are vulnerable and prone to extreme weather events and the impacts of climate change, the Caribbean is constantly...

This report maps private-sector activities relevant to migrants and explores how private and public-sector actors can engage jointly with migrants at various stages of the migration cycle. It discusses entry points for donors and governments aiming to establish greater engagement by the private...

This guide is published by the International Organization for Migration – the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in the UK, to support capacity-building in local authorities (and regional statutory bodies with responsibility for integration) to effectively use the Indicators of Integration framework in...

This survey bank contains questionnaires developed around the world to measure migrant integration and social cohesion in different contexts. In particular, it provides access to various surveys and questions that have been used before, giving a degree of comparability across studies. The survey...

This MPI Europe-International Organization for Migration (IOM) report explores key lessons cities can draw from the social innovation that accompanied the 2015–16 arrivals to help them weather the challenges brought by the pandemic. The study’s findings come in part from interviews conducted with...

This issue brief looks at how the underutilized professional expertise and cultural and linguistic skills of internationally trained health professionals (and some U.S.-trained professionals) could be better leveraged to meet current and future demand for care. This includes about 270,000...

This Policy Brief reviews current challenges and good practices of communication on migration and integration in response to the pandemic, drawing from examples of communication campaigns implemented in OECD Member countries in 2020. How best to communicate on migration and integration in the...

The LINK IT project aimed at delivering better integration outcomes for Syrian refugees resettled from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to Germany, Portugal, Romania and the United Kingdom. The project focused on strengthening the link between pre‑departure and post‑arrival integration support of refugees...

The SHARE SIRA project, implemented from January 2021 to December 2022 and co-funded by the European Union’s Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), fosters inclusive territorial approaches in rural areas in Europe, which are playing an increasingly important role in receiving newcomers. The...

In close collaboration with national authorities and experienced Partners, through the HELIOS project IOM aimed at promoting the integration of beneficiaries of international protection residing in temporary accommodation schemes into the Greek society, through the following components: Integration...

The COMMIT project (Facilitating the Integration of Resettled Refugees in Croatia, Italy, Spain and Portugal) aimed at maximizing the integration outcomes of resettled refugees in Croatia, Italy, Spain and Portugal by enhancing pre-departure orientation, strengthening community support, fostering...

Includ-EU brings into play a bottom-up approach to identifying and respectively tackling issues surrounding the migration and asylum policies. It aims at bringing together local and regional authorities from Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia and Spain for the purpose of enhancing...

Read4Succeed is an international cooperation project developed by a consortium of 8 partners including universities, schools, non-profit associations and Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) teams from 5 European countries (Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, Italy and Czechia). It aims to help...

This data visualization explores examples of reforms, new initiatives and campaigns to recognise and better support migrant essential workers in the COVID-19 response. This project is maintained by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), an independent, global think tank.

Rooted in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this publication aims to provide project managers and developers, as well as event organizers and facilitators, with guidance in developing, facilitating and evaluating a wide range...

This issue focuses on the impacts of forced displacement on education outcomes for internally displaced populations, refugees and their host communities. It further looks at some of the policies and interventions that provide strong evidence for a shift towards national inclusive education systems...

Peru was one of the first countries to take regularization measures for Venezuelan migrants. It has become the second destination - after Colombia - and the first in terms of refugee applications received (until the beginning of 2020). The following report analyses the public policies adopted by...

The purpose of this study is to identify which factors help or hinder local integration, utilizing data on perceptions and living conditions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) displaced for more than three years and data collected from host community residents. The purpose here being to guide...

A photo essay about Derrick Avenue, a lively high street in Cyrildene eastern suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Up until the early 1990s, Derrick Avenue was largely characterised by Jewish, and to a lesser extent, Greek residents as well as related spatial markers. The street has since then...