Managing Return Migration

Tid: 21-22 april 2008
Plats: International Conference Center Geneva (CICG), 17 rue de Varembé, Geneva, Schweiz

A workshop on "Managing Return Migration" will be held in the framework of IOM’s International Dialogue on Migration (IDM) which in 2008 has an overall theme of "Return Migration: Challenges and Opportunities".

The IDM was launched in 2001 to provide an informal forum for IOM Member and Observer States as well as international and non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders for the exchange of perspectives and experiences on migration matters with a view to identifying practical solutions and fostering greater interstate cooperation.

The main objectives of the workshop are:

• To bring together governments and other relevant stakeholders to share experiences pertaining to return migration and to stimulate discussion on existing practices, highlighting the diverse and yet complementary management perspectives of countries of origin, transit and destination with a view to reconcile and balance the diverse interests and concerns of all migration stakeholders as well as to enhance cooperative migration management approaches.
  
• To bring forward and highlight key issues that would form part of comprehensive return migration approaches as well as to address the relationship between migration and other policy domains such as development, trade, human rights and health.
  
• To provide the IOM membership with the opportunity to discuss return migration management in depth and to identify effective means for and successful approaches to managing return in a safe, dignified and sustainable manner.
  

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