Return migration and employment: the possibilities for support investigated

Research into the characteristics of migrants reveals that in particular better educated and skilled youngsters leave developing countries. This outflow undermines the development of poor countries. Migrants should not be considered as a definite loss for their country but rather as potential development agents who will contribute to the development of their country. Therefore it is necessary for them to have an opportunity to return and to find a job in their country of origin after spending a certain time abroad.

Viewed in the light of improving the facilitation of return migration, the Netherlands Migration Institute (NMI) and the Dutch Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO) asked Regioplan Beleidsonderzoek to undertake a study to advise them on this matter.