Migrants in Bosnia are increasingly often deciding to return to their countries of origin, the Chief of Mission of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Bosnia, Laura Lungarotti, told N1.
She noted that the migrants staying in BiH are a diverse group which includes members of different nationalities and ethnicities but that “80 percent of them are males aged between 18 and 45 men who often travel in groups” and that, after they try to reach Western Europe several times, “they decide to return to their country of origin.”
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She explained that the process of returning the migrants is conducted via the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration programme which the IOM implements together with Bosnia’s Service for Foreigner’s Affairs and the representative offices of the countries of origin.
Migrants decide to return to their home countries for various reasons but foremost in cases when their asylum application was denied.
They did not qualify to be refugees, they are not fleeing the war, they are not fleeing persecution,” she explained.
The returning migrants also get reintegration assistance, she said.
“IOM also supports them when they return to their country of origin – Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh (…),” she said, explaining that this support may be in the form of providing them with education or starting a business.
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