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This publications portal is a repository of all IOM migration health publications from 2006 to present where IOM was a primary contributor.

Publications include peer-reviewed scientific papers, technical reports, training guides/manuals, policy briefs/discussion papers, factsheets, newsletters, research reviews, conference and poster presentations. These are categorized by topic, author, country/region covered as well as by year, language, and type of publication. The map reflects the countries covered by the publications.

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Health and Reintegration. Returning to Space but not to Time: A life course approach to migrants’ health, continuity of care and impact on reintegration outcomes

2022 Report English
Author/s: Samuel Hall and IOM

This study was the result of a collaboration between the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH), with the financial support of the European Union (EU), in collaboration with Samuel Hall and the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

The main aim of this research was to explore the links between health needs, access to care, and sustainable reintegration of returnees. Within this, there were four main objectives that link the…

Recovering from the ebola crisis: IOM's strategic framework for action 2015-2017

2016 Report English
Author/s: IOM

The 2014/2015 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which also affected neighbouring countries, Nigeria, Senegal, and Mali, has been unprecedented in its scale and impact, in terms of human loss, economic drain, and delayed development for countries within the region. The EVD outbreak of 2014/2015 in West Africa was declared a Global Health Emergency on 8 August 2014 and was in fact two crises in one: 1) A crisis of a virulent, epidemic…

National Migration Policy 2015

2015 Report English
Author/s: IOM Nigeria

There has been increased interest in migration and migration policies in the last decade. Several developments at global, regional, subregional and national levels have raised migration issues to the forefront of the political and policy arenas, emphasizing the need for legal frameworks to curtail irregular migration and maximize the benefits of migration for national development.

At the international level, the 2005 Report of the…

An assessment of psychosocial needs and resources in Yola IDP camps: North East Nigeria

2015 Report English
Author/s: Guglielmo Schinina’, Luana Giardinelli, Gladys Kios

The psychosocial needs assessment that is described in his document was conducted in the period of twenty one days in April, 2015. The assessment took place in Adamawa State, and aimed at identifying self-perceived stress factors and coping mechanisms among the populations displaced to Yola, the Adamawa capital, due to the activities of the Boko Haram Insurgency, and to map existing services and provisions, to identify gaps to be covered.

Promoting better management of migration in Nigeria: Mapping of Nigerian health and education professionals in the United States of America

2015 Report English
Author/s: IOM Nigeria

The United States of America is widely known as one of the major destinations for Nigerian migrants. Migration of Nigerians to this country has been increasing over time, and trends show that this is still continuing. The situation has created a huge opportunity to harness and maximize enormous potential resources of this group.

To identify the possibility of tapping into the available skills and resources for the development of Nigeria, the…

Promoting better management of migration in Nigeria: Mapping of Nigerian health and education professionals in South Africa

2014 Report English
Author/s: William Muhwava, Patrick Chiroro

The trend of Nigerians migrating to South Africa has been increasing over time and indications are that this is still continuing. The increasing migration trend has created an opportunity to harness the potential resources of this group. This mapping exercise was conducted to provide information on the Nigerian diaspora working in the health and education sectors in South Africa, as well as to identify those who are willing to invest or contribute their skills towards…

Promoting better management of migration in Nigeria: Mapping of Nigerian health and education professionals in the United Kingdom

2014 Report English
Author/s: Maxine James, Ade SAwyerr, Rosemary Emodi

Nigerian diaspora members currently living in the United Kingdom are highly skilled and knowledgeable, and thus can contribute to national development. They can make contributions in the form of investment, skills transfer, mentoring and consulting. This mapping exercise was conducted to provide information on the Nigerian diaspora working in the health and education sectors in the United Kingdom as well as to identify those who are willing to invest or contribute their…

Challenges in the Reintegration of Return Migrants with Chronic Medical Conditions

2014 Report English
Author/s: Merlijn Schayk

This report provides insight into the lived reality of voluntary returnees with chronic medical conditions who returned to Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ghana, UNSC resolution 1244-administered Kosovo, Mongolia and Morocco. The report was developed in the framework of the IOM project Measures to Enhance the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) of Migrants with a Chronic Medical Condition Residing in the EU. The project was funded by the European Return…

MRS N°48 - Mobility of Health Professionals to, from and within the European Union

2014 Report English
Author/s: Caroline Schultz, Barbara Rijks

This publication is a shortened version of the summary report “Mobility of Health Professionals: Health systems, work conditions, patterns of health workers’ mobility and implication for policy makers”, which was published in March 2012, in Bonn, Germany, by a consortium led by Dr. Caren Weilandt at the Wissenschaftliches Institut der Ärzte Deutschlands (WIAD, Scientific Institute of the Medical Association of German Doctors). The summary report was written by Frits…

HIV and population mobility: Behavioural study of female sex workers along Ghana’s Tema‐Paga transport corridor

2012 Report English
Author/s: Aden Guliye, Valentia Amados, Abenta Asante, Jean Francois Aguilera

The aim of the study was to generate data on HIV and mobility to inform strategic decisions on HIV programming for Female Sex Workers (FSWs). Specific objectives of the study were to: (a) understand characteristics of the FSWs operating along the Tema‐Paga transport corridor; (b) understand mobility characteristics; (c) understand HIV vulnerability similarities and differences between roamers and seaters; and (d) identify HIV vulnerability (risk) factors.