Analyses and documents

The main objective of the MIREM project lies in better taking into consideration the challenges linked to return migration as well as its impact on development. Analytical tools are provided in this section to better understand the return migration phenomenon as applied to the Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia). All the data produced are accessible to stimulate a constructive debate on this issue.

The analytical tools which are presented in the framework of the MIREM project are aimed at identifying the factors inherent in the returnees’ migratory experience, as well as those that are external to it, shaping their patterns of reintegration, as well as their opportunities to participate in the development of the Maghreb countries. These tools are also aimed at:

• Providing innovative field data and information allowing various categories of returnees in the Maghreb countries to be identified ;
• Better taking into consideration the diversity inherent in return flows, for developmental ends ;
• Disseminating all the data produced by the MIREM team to Maghrebi and European stakeholders, as well as to the scientific community as a whole, in order to favour a constructive debate on return issues as well as an exchange of viewpoints and expertise, at a regional level.

Four databases related to return migration

Have free access to all the empirical, statistical and documentary data collected by the MIREM team and related to return migration and returnees’ patterns of reintegration in the Maghreb countries.

Analytical reports and documents

Download and read all the analytical reports and documents pertaining to return…

Schools of thought on return migration

Learn how return has been dealt with by migration scholars from different disciplines since the 1960s and how various schools of thought have emerged to propose new analytical frameworks and tools aimed at better understanding return migration…