E-Learning on Fostering the Social and Professional Reintegration of Return Migrants

The course explores the linkages between reintegration and development. It is providing rights-based guidelines to develop and implement social and economic reintegration programme and policies based on the ILO standards . OBJECTIVES Specifically, at the end of the course, participants were able to: • Access innovative and comparative data on returnees’ conditions back home • Combine a top down and a bottom-up approach to return migration and reintegration • Benefit from increased awareness of the need to develop adequate mechanisms sustaining the reintegration of returnees while redefining current policy priorities as applied to return • Understand the factors, public policies, as well as the pre- and post-return conditions shaping migrants’ patterns of reintegration in their country of origin • Explaining why return may or may not have a positive impact on the development of migrants’ country of origin • Acquire analytical tools and instruments (e.g. indicators) allowing adequate policies to be adopted with a view to supporting migrants’ reintegration • Promote the integration of return migration issues in national and regional development strategies • Appreciate the gender dimension of reintegration of return migrant workers 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; • Gender perspective to return of migrant workers and economic, social and cultural reintegration in return • Linkages between Fair Recruitment and Reintegration • Entrepreneurship of returnees and impact on development; • Coordination and coherence among public institutions (local and national) in the development of a reintegration policy. ACHIEVEMENT • Complete the 6 weekly assignments • Analyse in group specific case studies • Individual essay