Nigerian Migrants Get a Welcome Home. Jobs Are Another Story.<br />Nigeria left that As I’m sitting here, I’m still angry,<br />Mr. Isaac, whom Libyan officials detained, is one of around 7,000 Nigerian migrants the International<br />Organization for Migration has returned home on chartered flights from Libya since January 2017.<br />The migration organization’s flights home back home are taken voluntarily,<br />but economic migrants stuck in detention in Libya often don’t feel like they have much of a choice.<br />Those working to return migrants home say their motives are humane, even though many who borrowed money<br />for the journey often find themselves back where they started — and with no way to pay it back.<br />8, 2018<br />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.<br />"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<br />and returnee support programs, including helping create more small businesses in Nigeria.
