The Media section collects different audio-visual materials (videos, podcasts, photos) portraying voices of returnees, their families and communities, partners, as well as other stakeholders across different contexts and regions. It aims to promote a more realistic, balanced and fact-based narrative on return and sustainable reintegration, particularly by shedding light on them being multidimensional phenomena. To do so, the materials seek to harmoniously focus on the different dimensions of sustainable reintegration, namely the economic, social and psychosocial dimensions, across individual, community and structural levels as set forth by the IOM's Integrated Approach. 

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The study explores the links between health needs, access to care and sustainable reintegration of returnees. It took a life-course approach to returnees’ health needs and reintegration outcomes, and followed a mixed methods approach with fieldwork in Brazil, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Georgia, Pakistan, and Senegal.

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Paulo is an artist and restaurateur who spent the last 20 years in Europe before being assisted by IOM to voluntarily return to Brazil. He lived in several countries and cities, such as Paris, Lyon (France), Hannover (Germany) and Geneva (Switzerland), where he also presented his art in exhibitions and galleries. Paulo creates his sculptures from materials that he recovers from the streets, oceans and forests.

He received reintegration assistance to buy tools that he needed for his art. Today, Paulo lives in Rio Preto in the state of Minas Gerais where he continues to create and display his sculptures.

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Zviad, Paata and Nugzar returned to their hometown in Ozurgeti, after different experiences abroad. In the framework of IOM-organized activities on sustainable reintegration and related skills training for returnees, they decided to submit to the local community centre a proposal for a join business.

They aimed to expand an existing small iron production business and transform it into a multi-profile iron and concrete production enterprise, developing additional components for manufacturing the building blocks, concrete decorative fences, exterior paving slabs and designed outdoor concrete planters.

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The study was undertaken in 2022 by the KMH in collaboration with Samuel Hall and the University of Sussex. It builds on previous research on debt and reintegration by analyzing returnees’ and their households’ experiences with debt in five countries.

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To support her family, Ifrah travelled abroad and she kept sending remittances without possibility to save some money for the future. Due to several challenges and mental health difficulties she faced, she decided to return to Ethiopia - still empty handed and without proper time to prepare for return.

IOM Ethiopia supported her throughout her reintegration process, first of all by providing her with counselling sessions to address her mental well-being. After a while she also started scouting for new job opportunities and she decided to engage in a plastic recycling project in Dire Dawa, her hometown.

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The webinar took place on 11 May at 11am CEST and presented the findings and case studies from latest reports released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and produced by Samuel Hall. 

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