Reimagining Reintegration

Approximately 80% of the more than six million individuals that were forcibly displaced since 2014 due to the ISIL conflict in Iraq have already been able to return, with some returns starting as early as 2015. This is a positive trend, especially compared to other contexts of protracted displacement; but concerns remain about how durable these returns are and whether families once back home have been able to fully regain their rights as citizens. Earlier analysis of returns in Iraq showed that the main obstacles to reintegration that affected most returnees related to more structural and social concerns, highlighting that return is a socio-political, not only geographical, process wherein IDPs express complex, often intertwined claims, including for redress and recognition as equal and legitimate members of the local and national political community in which they live.

It is with this conceptual underpinning that the Reimagining Reintegration research project seeks to better understand how to measure the sustainability of returns and the ways in which to support it, using an expanded and more comprehensive set of durable solutions indicators exploring immediate situational factors and long-term structural factors and expectations. This research draws on data collected among returnee households (2,260 respondents) across the 14 districts in Iraq with the largest share of return movements to date , with data disaggregated to district, gender, and age.

Program: SOCIAL COHESION AND FRAGILITY

REIMAGINING REINTEGRATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE RETURNS AFTER CONFLICT

This report explores return reintegration utilizing a more expanded and comprehensive set of durable solutions indicators.

Download the Main Report on Return Reintegration here.

RESEARCH BRIEF: POVERTY AND PRECARITY — A COMPARISON OF FEMALE- AND MALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS IN DISTRICTS OF RETURN

This brief focuses specifically on the differences in material and social conditions between female- and male-headed households on return. 

Download the brief here.