IOM information awareness poster (2008)

IOM works to prevent irregular migration, labour abuse and the misinformation of migrant workers through awareness raising activities and provision of information to migrants in Ukraine. IOM implements activities to inform migrants about their future living and working environment prior to their departure and assists migrants by developing language training courses to facilitate integration in the workplace and host society.

Moreover, IOM informs the migrant workers of the risks and realities associated with labour migration and works to improve migrants’ access to information on immigration, labour legislation, and integration in Ukraine (as well as numerous other key issues), through its seven Centers for Migrant Advice (CMAs) throughout the country (see www.migrantinfo.org.ua).  Since 2005, the CMAs have assisted over 110,000 clients.  

IOM also administrates (since 2010), the web portal of the Söderköping Process, which serves as a bilingual information gathering tool on key EU Policy documents in asylum and migration, EU regulations, research papers and best practices on asylum, migration and border management (see www.soderkoping.org.ua).