Governments need to ensure responses to migration and human smuggling don’t make it more dangerous for migrants and more lucrative for criminals. Mobility has been a key facet of resilience across much of the African continent throughout its history, and those on the move have long relied on the...

Europe has seen an unprecedented increase in the number of irregular migrants arriving in the European Union since 2014. The scale of these migratory flows reached previously unseen heights in 2015. This trend of exponentially increasing numbers of migrants arriving in the EU is set to continue in...

The report brings together that important evidence collected by academics, private research companies, authorities and investigative journalists on the transnational crime aspects of migrant smuggling, including on routes, smuggling organization (such as criminal networking and facilitation)...

The World Migration Report 2020, the tenth in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration...

The present report was prepared in response to General Assembly resolution 73/241. Section II presents the latest global levels and trends in international migration. Section III discusses recent activities, undertaken by entities of the United Nations system, to support countries in integrating...

The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 73/195, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General, drawing on the United Nations Network on Migration, to report to the Assembly on a biennial basis on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and...

This edited volume provides a comprehensive, fact-based account of migration from and within West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean from 2019- 2020, with the aim of promoting more coherent, forward-looking and sustainable policy approaches, in line with the Global Compact for Safe...

This report provides an overview of the developments, challenges, and prospects of social protection for migrant workers in ASEAN. Based on extensive analysis of national and regional legal and policy measures, and a review of relevant international and human rights standards, unilateral standards...

The ISSA Handbook on the extension of social security to migrant workers shows why national social security systems should extend coverage to migrant workers and their dependents. In addition to meeting people’s basic needs and social protection requirements, there are important advantages for...

This report examines why skills partnerships have not been implemented more widely and proposes measures for making them more successful on a global scale. 

The report presents the results of the assessment of the range and types of IOM’s education and vocational training programmes as of December 2017. Within an overall framework of reviewing the Organization’s role in supporting the development and implementation of migration policy, the purpose of...

This information sheet provides an overview of the connections between migration health and the different sustainable development goals, as well as selected examples of IOM activities towards the SDGs.

The global report explores the impacts of COVID-19 on access to basic services for migrants, examining how risks, vulnerabilities and challenges have been exacerbated by the pandemic and outlining main obstacles (legal, practical, administrative, etc.) to access. It highlights the important work of...

Around the world, migrants, especially irregular migrants, increasingly face barriers to accessing essential services that are indispensable to their survival and basic dignity, such as health care, shelter, food and legal assistance. There are a range of factors that prevent this access, including...

This document builds on a discussion paper developed by the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons on the current state of evaluation practice in the field of trafficking in persons. It provides an accessible and easily employable set of tools that practitioners can use to...

The report explores various sites of vulnerability where migrants are particularly susceptible to human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery. These include private dwellings, border crossings, irregular migration routes and conflict zones. The report illustrates that migrants are most...

There are those who seek to apply the experience of the war on drugs to the emerging war on migrant smugglers to warn that such a confrontation carries high costs, low chances of success and would likely lead to an escalation of violence against the migrants themselves. Such arguments suggest we...

This document presents the results of a pilot study on the effect of the GMFF on social cohesion by looking at how films and public film screenings can impact perceptions and attitudes towards migrants. The study found that participation in social mixing events, such as GMFF film screenings...

This study proposes the Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) Integration Index as a pragmatic and multidimensional measure of immigrant integration. The IPL Integration Index serves as a tool to measure six dimensions of integration that can be used by countries across different immigrant groups, in order...

Migrants’ inclusion has always been an important part of the migration phenomenon, but it is particularly complex in today’s increasingly globalized world and diverse societies. This chapter introduces the notions of inclusion and social cohesion and examines inclusion outcomes and obstacles in...