Featured Articles
Is it Safe to Return?
Governments in the East African and surrounding region have been agitating for the return of Somali refugees, in connection to the growing perception that Somalia is now relatively peaceful and stable. In Kenya, home to the...[more]
Fencing Migrants Out: the impact on regional movement
If the first decade after the new millennium was the time when the United States tried to fence out Mexican migrants, then 2013 is the year that Israel and Saudi Arabia used huge fencing projects to block African mixed migration...[more]
Irregular Mixed Maritime Movements: comparing the Horn of Africa and the Asia-Pacific
There are interesting similarities and important differences between irregular maritime migration in the Horn of Africa and Yemen region and the level of movement by sea in the Asia-Pacific region. This article presents a brief...[more]
Alarming Abuse of Migrants in Yemen
International agencies have highlighted a growing humanitarian crisis in and around Haradh in northern Yemen affecting thousands of migrants. Reports of extreme torture and sexual abuse of migrants at the hands of traffickers and...[more]
Kenya pressurizing urban refugees
The future of the refugee regime in Kenya is very uncertain and the urban caseload of refugees and irregular migrants are feeling the pressure. A range of factors ranging from insecurity in Kenya, relative peace in Somalia,...[more]
More migration & more mixed? Trends to watch in 2013
This is a speculative article based on events and dynamic trends already evident or highly likely in 2013 that may impact mixed migration in the region. It is independent analysis from RMMS and serves as a ‘sister’ article to the...[more]
Regional Mixed Migration trends in 2012
The RMMS offers here an analysis and summary of the key trends in 2012 relating to mixed flows and movement in the Horn of Africa and Yemen region. This analysis is presented in a thematic manner under the different country or...[more]
Disproportionate Force: the detention of irregular migrants in the Horn of Africa
Throughout East and the Horn of Africa irregular migrants regarded as illegals and undocumented foreigners by national authorities often face arbitrarily applied punishment and treatment ranging from street arrest...[more]
Imagining the future of migration
JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2012 (IRIN) - What does the future hold for international migration? By 2030, will we see more people migrating in response to climate change and an increased demand for their labour in Europe? Or will...[more]
Desperate choices: conditions, risks & protection failures affecting Ethiopian migrants in Yemen
Human rights abuses, killings, sexual violence, abductions and ransom demands, lack of jobs, discrimination in the workplace and widespread poverty and destitution are some of the many problems facing Ethiopian migrant’s en-route...[more]
No Quarter: Israel’s crack down on illegal immigration
Israel’s crack down targeting irregular African migrants has had some dramatic outcomes in resent months. Following the forced return of hundreds of South Sudanese undocumented migrants, the detaining of thousands of others and...[more]
Protecting migrant rights: a policy comparison
A policy comparison between the EU common immigration policy for Europe; the UNHCR 10 point plan; the AU Migration Policy Framework and the IOM Irregular migration and mixed flows policy paper. Irregular migration has reached...[more]
Sending it home: Migration & Remittances in Somalia and Ethiopia
The Horn of Africa region, specifically Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, continues to generate significant numbers of migrants to North America, Europe and Asia-Middle East. Many move by means, and along routes, that characterize...[more]
Exporing the future of mixed migration
The level of population movement in the Horn of Africa (and Yemen) region has been increasing in recent times with tens of thousands of people on the move every month within the region and out of the region, as internally...[more]
The grim reality of smuggling economics and migrant abuse
The business of human smuggling in the Horn of Africa and down the eastern corridor of Africa is alive and kicking. Like other markets in the formal or informal economy, it operates dynamically within the laws of supply and...[more]
Just Commodities? rising criminality against migrants
New reports from Egypt, Sudan and Yemen show that individuals caught up in the flow of mixed migration from the region are increasingly becoming victims of violent criminality after they leave their country of origin. Migrants on...[more]
Driving storms: migration and the environment
(with a special review of ‘Migration and Global Environmental Change’ – a study by The UK Government Office for Science) Climate and environmental change-induced migration is interrelated and increasingly becoming a key global...[more]
Navigating migration in the Horn: a mosaic of changing policies
The region is tough for migrants, IDPs, refugees and asylum seekers. As states wrestle between defining their own immigration policies, evenly applying existing laws and international commitments and responding to populist...[more]
Mixed migration and weak state structures
A review with comments of "Termites at Work: Transnational Organised Crime and State Erosion in Kenya"International Peace Institute 2011 Smuggling and trafficking; whether it be in humans, drugs, small arms or other...[more]
RMMS Featured articles: Discussion and Exploration
Aiming to add value to regional discussion and exploration of issues relevant to mixed migration, the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat will feature on-line articles on a regular basis. The Horn of Africa is a fast changing...[more]
