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Return Migration: Policies and Practices
2.3 STATISTICS ON VOLUNTARY RETURN
The REAN programme provided return assistance to over 15,000 migrants between 1997 and
2003. In 2003, 3,022 persons were assisted by IOM Netherlands with their departure, mostly to
their country of origin, of which 2,906 were assisted voluntary returns and 116 were resettlements.
It is estimated that 2,750 individual will be assisted to return in 2004. 24
TABLE 5
STATISTICS ON ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURN: 1997-2003
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
826 889 4,136 3,220 1,775 2,194 3,022
Source: Policy Document on Return: Measures for a More Effective Implementation of Dutch Policy on
Return, 21 November 2003, Ministry of Justice, p. 20.
Other
37%
Ecuador
2% Armenia
3% Colombia
4%
FIGURE 1
RETURNS UNDER THE REAN PROGRAMME,
BY COUNTRIES OF DESTINATION: 1995-2001
Turkey
4%
Czech
Republic
4%
266
Egypt
6%
Slovakia
16%
Suriname
6%
Iran
12%
Russian Federation
6%