{"id":273142,"date":"2019-04-15T09:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEH6cuhRsY6YdkIqP7oJKguoqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMOOV2AU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:30","slug":"ethiopian-migrants-returning-from-saudi-arabia-the-long-road-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273142","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian migrants returning from Saudi Arabia: the long road home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IOM \/ ReliefWeb documentation covering May 2017 to March 2019 tracked large returns of <strong>Ethiopian migrants<\/strong> from Saudi Arabia after Riyadh\u2019s \u201cNation without Violations\u201d campaign against irregular status.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-341260\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ethiopian-Migrants.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopian migrants returning from Saudi Arabia: the long road home\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The numbers and timelines matter for Horn policy: reintegration, detention risks on the route, gender breakdowns of returnees, and pressure on communities that already send labor to the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Migration files age better than spot crime wires. This return dataset remains a baseline for anyone comparing later Saudi crackdowns and Ethiopia\u2019s diaspora labor dependence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/return-ethiopian-migrants-kingdom-saudi-arabia-5-may-2017-31-march-2019\">ReliefWeb \/ IOM report page<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return of Ethiopian migrants from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (5 May 2017 &#8211; 31 March 2019) &#8211; Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebBACKGROUND. In March 2017, the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia launched a campaign titled &#8216;A Nation without Violations&#8217;,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":341260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ethiopian-Migrants.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-193w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600573,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273142\/revisions\/600573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}