CIAO DATE: 11/04

Dynamics of Return and Sustainable Reintegration in a ‘Mobile Livelihoods’-Perspective

Abstract

This Paper was prepared by the Department of Globalisation and Governance Research at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) for the Danish International Development Assistance (Danida) entity of the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and forms part of the Migration-Development Nexus Follow-up Study. It was discussed at a workshop in Copenhagen March 9, 2004, and subsequently revised for publication.

Reviewing current literature on return and reintegration processes, this working paper argues that the mobile livelihood patterns and capacities of displaced populations must be taken into account when donors and agencies plan and support such processes. Seen in this perspective, ‘sustainable return’ may involve continued mobility within and across borders. The working paper lists a number of tasks which involved agencies may undertake in support of return and reintegration of displaced population in regard to information, access to land and property, and development.

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