Reintegration – Effective Approaches

IOM’s Migrant Assistance Division and its recently published paper on “Reintegration – Effective approaches” provides a snapshot of the current debate around reintegration and portrays various positions and practices that can support practitioners and academics in making further progress.

https://www.iom.int/sites/default/files/our_work/DMM/AVRR/Reintegration-Position-Paper-final.pdf

Through innovative ideas, such as partnerships with countries of origin, the private sector, foundations, developments actors and the diaspora, reintegration projects may provide a more comprehensive response, better address root causes of migration and adapt to new challenges of return migration. Last but not least, to achieve sustainable reintegration, the returnee should actively participate in his/her reintegration process and assistance should cover economic, social and psycho-social dimensions through adequate training, counselling, networking and financial support, while mitigating possible security risks and allowing for sufficient time for the returnee to re-adapt.

Written by Gabriella Gombar