Nigerian Migrants Get a Welcome Home. Jobs Are Another Story.

Nigerian Migrants Get a Welcome Home. Jobs Are Another Story.
Nigeria left that As I’m sitting here, I’m still angry,
Mr. Isaac, whom Libyan officials detained, is one of around 7,000 Nigerian migrants the International
Organization for Migration has returned home on chartered flights from Libya since January 2017.
The migration organization’s flights home back home are taken voluntarily,
but economic migrants stuck in detention in Libya often don’t feel like they have much of a choice.
Those working to return migrants home say their motives are humane, even though many who borrowed money
for the journey often find themselves back where they started — and with no way to pay it back.
8, 2018
BENIN CITY, Nigeria — It had been 10 hours since he left Libyan shores, and Desmond Isaac was so close to Italy he felt like he could almost see it.
"But getting people home from rubber dinghies in the sea in winter is far better." With the support of the European Union, the migration organization is expanding reintegration
and returnee support programs, including helping create more small businesses in Nigeria.