FOSTERING THE SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL REINTEGRATION OF RETURN MIGRANTS

The course explores the linkages between return migration and development while explaining why some return migrants succeed in reintegrating back home whereas others do not. OBJECTIVES The course addresses the social and professional reintegration of return migrants by strengthening the capacity of policy level stakeholders design and facilitate evidence based return migration policies. CONTENT The course tackles the following topics: • Measuring return flows and stocks; • Heterogeneity of returnees’ profiles and patterns of reintegration; • Factors shaping returnees’ patterns of reintegration back home. Why do some • returnees contribute to development whereas others do not? • Returnees’ investment and skills portability in the labour; • Social protection mechanisms to cover returnees and their families; • Empowering returnees and access to services at local level; • The link between integration in host countries and reintegration in home countries; • Impact of vocational training on the returnees’ propensity to reintegrate • professionally back home; • Entrepreneurship of returnees and impact on development; • Coordination and coherence among public institutions (local and national) in the development of a reintegration policy.