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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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Field data

To date, two major field investigations have been carried out in the framework of the Return migration and Development Platform (RDP). Such empirical data allow a knowledge gap regarding returnees’ patterns of reintegration in their countries of origin to be filled. Please click on the links below to know more about the rationale for the past and current field surveys and have free access to the collected data.

CRIS: Cross-Regional Information System on the Reintegration of Migrants in their Countries of Origin

CRIS is a new initiative which was launched in 2011 thanks to the financial support of the Swiss Confederation and the European University Institute. CRIS is aimed at addressing the factors and conditions shaping returnees’ patterns of reintegration in their countries of origin (Armenia, Mali and Tunisia). In other words, it sets out to explain why some return migrants contribute to development back home, whereas others do not.

MIREM: Return Migration to the Maghreb

The main objective of the MIREM project revolves around a more in-depth consideration of the challenges linked to return migration as well as its impact on development. Analyses and user-friendly tools have been provided to understand and identify the factors inherent in the returnees’ migratory experience, as well as those that are external to it, which shape their patterns of reintegration in three North African countries (i.e., Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia). The Database on Return Migrants to the Maghreb (DReMM) constitutes one key outcome of this project.

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 !

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