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“We wanted a labour force, but human beings came”, Max Frisch “If earlier labour law was concerned with human rights, today’s law is concerned with human resources,” Colin Crouch “No one may be removed, expelled or extradited to a State where there is a serious risk that he or she would be subjected to the death penalty, torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” EU Charter of Fundamental Rights “The secrecy surrounding return is considerable, and the question must be asked whether this secrecy augments rather than decreases the political costs of return,” Gregor Noll “Home is where one starts from,” T. S. Eliot “Where I happen to be is my ‘abode’; where I intend to stay is my ‘residence’; where I come from and whither I want to return is my ‘home’," Albert Schuetz “Return migration is often largely conditioned by earlier steps in the migration cycle,” Russell King “I have observed with increasing concern a trend to criminalize the irregular entry and presence of migrants as part of a policy of ‘migration management’,” Thomas Hammarberg “Acceptance of lesser evils is consciously used in conditioning the government officials as well as the population at large to the acceptance of evil as such,” Hannah Arendt “Every migrant worker and every member of his or her family shall have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law”, UN Migrant Workers Convention

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Explore the country-based comparative projects (CRIS, MIREM) that are being developed in the framework of the RDP and have free access to all the empirical, statistical and documentary data collected by the research team on returnees' patterns of reintegration in Algeria, Armenia, Mali, Morocco, and Tunisia.

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1. Statistics on return migration

Tables and graphs based on available official statistics related to the stocks of returnees as well as to expelled migrants (so-called voluntary and forced returnees).

2. Field surveys on return migrants

Various comparable datasets have been produced. They allow the manifold factors shaping returnees’ patterns of reintegration in their country of origin to be better understood. Field data collected in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) are now part of the Database on Return Migrants to the Maghreb (DReMM). New datasets, based on a large number of interviews with returnees to Mali and Armenia, will be available online in the course of 2012.

News

"Priorités migratoires d'hier et vrais enjeux d'aujourd'hui", Le Maghreb Magazine

Description: A new article by Jean-Pierre Cassarino explaining the current drivers shaping the priorities of the newly elected Tunisian government in the field of migration (in French).

“Face of Migration”

Description: A movie by Kate Fenner and Witness for Peace

Training interviewers in Tunis, Tunisia

Description: Read the training mission report by Jean-Pierre Cassarino

New

Description: Return Migration to Mali: Examining definitions and statistical sources, by Davide Calenda

Fostering the Social and Professional Reintegration of Return Labour Migrants

Description: A training course co-organised by the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO) and the European University Institute (CRIS Project). Registration Open !

Publication

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