Rising return migration in Sri Lanka needs urgent Policy measures, says M.M. Alikhan

Rising return migration in Sri Lanka needs urgent  Policy measures, says M.M. Alikhan In recent years Sri Lanka is experiencing large number of return migration. However, there is not much attention given to the problem. Being a labour sending country Sri Lanka is enjoying a number of benefits due to the Middle East labour migration. But like the other labour sending countries, Sri Lanka also had failed to give much attention to the ‘return migration’ which is one of the main components in the migration cycle. As the number of emigration is high a large numbers of migrants are returning to the country and they are facing many difficulties to reintegrate with their place of origin. In such background this study attempts to determine the level of economic reintegration of both male and  female return migrant