Journal of International Migration and Integration: Re-Balancing the Reintegration Process and the Potential of Mentoring for Returnees: Evidence from Senegal, Guinea and Morocco

17.05.22 - Samuel Hall’s co-founder Nassim Majidi and Data Standards & Analytics Pillar Lead Stefanie Barratt with Ceri Oeppen of the University of Sussex and Camille Kasavan examines an approach that can re-balance assisted reintegration for returnees.

Returnee mentoring programmes - which borrow from social work practice - 'make a difference' in returnees' reintegration in contexts such as Guinea, Senegal and Morocco not just through the individualised support given by mentors, but their capacity to bring returnees together. They can push back on global north migration regimes by 1) empowering returnees to manage their own reintegration, 2) offering a more humane and personalised support, 3) challenging power imbalances that put donor objectives above individuals & countries of return.

In the article, authors adopt a mixed-methods approach to assess the importance of localised integration support and difference a mentorcan makek in returnees’ reintegration

Read here