ABSTRACT
This chapter tracks a set of return migrants in five South Asian countries and looks into the process of reintegration of these migrants into the labour markets of their home countries. It is based on a primary survey conducted in five South Asian countries Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. The crisis in this case, the decline in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in general in the Middle East region, led to the loss of jobs and means of livelihood for many workers from South Asia. The source for this comparison is the Migration Monitoring survey conducted by the Migration Research Unit of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) with financial assistance from the Department of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs, Government of Kerala. A comparison between the patterns in the education level of return emigrants (REMs) in 2008 and that of REMs in 2009 shows a kind of selfselection in crisis-related migration.
