Providing migration aid

Description

Providing migration aid involves delivering targeted support to individuals and groups relocating across borders due to conflict, disaster, or economic necessity. This strategy focuses on practical assistance such as legal guidance, shelter, healthcare, language training, and integration services. Its core purpose is to address immediate humanitarian needs, reduce vulnerability, and facilitate smoother adaptation in host communities, thereby mitigating risks of exploitation, social exclusion, and instability associated with unmanaged migration flows.

Implementation

The International Organization for Migration's (IOM) various activities in 1993 included among others: documentation and transfer of patients, family reunions, placement in countries of temporary protection, processing emigrants for resettlement abroad, in the former Yugoslavia; transport and logistics for vulnerable groups among the internally displaced, and returning refugees from abroad, in Mozambique; training and capacity building for government officials and NGO representatives involved with migration issues in the newly independent states, Russia, and the Baltic States; setting up a Central American Migration Secretariat to facilitate migration.