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GUIDANCE FOR INTERVIEW

The Reintegration Process for Return Migrant

Classification of respondents are made based on:

Type A (Geographical distribution) : A1  Middle East

A2  South East Asia
A3  Far East (East Asia)

Type B (Age group) : B1  < 30 years old

B2  30 – 40 years old
B3  > 50 years old

Type C (Marital Status) : C1  Ever Married with children

A. Basic Information
Date of return from overseas:
Currant age of respondent:
Current occupation:
No of children and their age:
Husband’s age:
Husband’s occupation:
Other family members:
Economic status of the household: (Type of house; land; assets):

Decision making

When did you migrate for the first time?

Let me know countries that you have migrated to?
 Why did you choose those countries?
How much money you had to spend for the most recent migration?
Who organized your visa?
How much money you had to pay to obtain visa?
What were the difficulties you had to face to obtain visa and managing the trip?
Where did you get finances for this?
Loan on interest?
What were the terms of borrowing?
What are the reason of your migration?
Economic- family hardship, aspiration to make a good house, renovate, buy land,
for children’s education?
Social – improve social status in the community?
Family- not happy within the relationship? What was the family cohesion before
migration?
Explain how the decision to migrate was arrived at?
Who took the initiatives?
Were there any objections within the family?
Who objected it?
Explain the process of the idea of migration to actually leaving the country?

Life and work at place of destination

What work did you do in Saudi Arabia?
Was this the job offered you by the agent at the time of agreement?
What was your working hours?
Working in the night?
Holidays? Have you had any holidays?
What was your salary?
Were you paid regularly?
How was the payment made: cash, bank transfer?
Did you get the salary that what was promised before migration?
Have you had to pay any commission to anyone from your salary?
Type of accommodation you were in?
What facilities you had in the house – TV etc.?
Have you had enough to eat?
Did you experience hunger any time because you were not given (or not been
able to buy) enough to eat?
Have you had any Indonesian family or friends with whom you could talk or spend
time?
Have you had any friends from other countries?
How did you spend your holidays?
Have you been to outside your work place?
How often you go?
 Communication with Family
How often you talk to communicate with your family back home?
How do you communicate with them?
It is expensive to make those calls/internet?
Have you been prevented any time from using phone or internet to communicate
with your family or friends?
What are the major barriers in communicating with your family and friends?
How many times you have visited Indonesia during your stay abroad?
Who paid your ticket?
What are main obstacles for visiting home?
What was your experience of visiting home?
How would you rate your relationship with spouse during your stay abroad?
Do you think it was better than or worse than when you were in the country?
Why do you think those changes happened?

How would you rate your relationship your children during your stay abroad?
Do you think it was better than or worse than when you were in the country?
Why do you think those changes happened?

How would you rate your relationship parents during your stay abroad?
Do you think it was better than or worse than when you were in the country?
Why do you think those changes happened?

What do you think should be done to facilitate communication with family back
home?
What are your suggestions?

Support from the government

Have you ever contacted Indonesian embassy? Why?

What level support you have received from them?
Were you happy with the service you received?
Did you pay (not official) for those services?
Have you paid any bribe to authorities to get services that you needed from
them?
Overall were you happy with the services that you received from the Indonesian
embassy?

What are your suggestions to government to improve their services to migrants?

B. Circumstances that lead to comeback

Decision to return home permanently
Who made the decision to return?
Did you discuss your desire to return with your husband/parents?
With whom did you discuss your desire to return?
What were their advice/suggestions?

Family circumstances
What role did family circumstance led you to return?
Husband not communicating with you?
Fear of divorce?
Children not happy?
Money that you sent were not used property?
Parents were ill?
Children are grown up?
Time to return to re-unite with family? Any other reasons?

Economic achievement?
Did you achieve economically everything that you wanted through migration?
House, land?
Children’s education?
Debt clearance?
Assets?
Saving for future?
Savings for business?
That you planned to return because your economic aspirations were met?

Process of return?
Did you get all clearance needed to leave the country easily from the employer?
What problems did you face?
If you had any problems who helped you?
Who paid for your tickets?
Did you get all your wages?
Did anyone accompany you to airport?
Were you happy with your experience of returning permanently?

Circumstances at work that led to return?

Lost job?
Salary reduced?
Working hours increased?
Poor working conditions?
Harassment at workplace?
 Health was poor?
What health problems you had?

C. Integration within the family

Permanent return migration

Do you remember the day returned home from overseas permanently?
What do you remember from that day in terms of how your family members
received you?

Did they know that you were coming back permanently that you had no plans to
go back?
If they did not know, what were their reactions when they came to know that you
are not retuning?

When you returned permanently, what were your thought about how your family
will be receiving your – your husband, children, parents?

What were the economic impact of your return on the family finances?
To what extent your return affected your family well-being – food, cloths,
education, health, recreation, and overall standard of living?
Declined or remained the same?

Do you face any health problem due to the fact that you have returned?
Mental health.

Integration with husband

After returning permanently from overseas how do you rate your relationship
with husband?
Was he happy that you have returned, and you could re-build your family; or was
he unhappy that family income has reduced?
Since returned from overseas, has your relationship with husband improved or
worsened over a period of time?
What are the reasons for those changes?
What kind of changes your husband had to change because of your return in
terms of income/job?
What level of emotional connection you currently have with your husband – has
this declined since your returned permanently from overseas?
If emotional levels have declined what do you think are the reasons for those?

Integration with children

What are the ages of your children when you returned?
 What were they doing when you returned permanently?
What do they do now?

When you returned were they happy to have you back home?
How your rate your emotional bond with your children when you returned?

Did they become very close to you from the very first day of your return?
How long did it take them to become very close to you?

Did they ever complain to you or to anyone that you left them behind?
Or did they share with your their problems when you were away?

Do you ever regret that you had to leave your children behind?

Do you think your ability to support your children improved or decreased after
return?

Integration with parents

Age of parents:

What were the reactions of your parents/parents in-laws when they knew that
you have returned permanently?
Were they happy that you have returned?

Did your return impact on their welfare? What way?

What were the positive things they felt about your return?

What were the negative things they felt about your return?

If they were looking after children – did they feel happier with the return?

D. Integration within the community

Integration with neighborhood

When your neighbors knew that you have returned permanently what were their
reactions?
 Do you think they value you in the same way that they valued you before?
Why do you think those changes happened?

Do you feel happy to interact with the community in the same way as before
migration or when you were a migrant?

Do people in your neighborhood consider you as a successful migrant?

Do you or did you receive any support from the community to re-integrate by
helping you to set up business or moral support for finding a job etc.?

What support do you expect from your community when you returned?

E. Integration in the labor market

No Questions
Did you try to get a job after return? What kind of job were you looking for?
What difficulties you faced?

What training or educational barrier you faced while looking for a job?

Did you try to start a business?

What were the difficulties you faced? Did you have enough training and capital to
support your business?

Were you discriminated while trying to get a job or business because you were a
return migrant?
If so what kind of discrimination?

What are your suggestions to government to support migrant women returning

from overseas

F. Integration to the wider society

What do you think Regencies should do to help return migrants?

What do you think national government to do to help return migrants?

Do you know any programmes available to help return migrants?

What are the main problems return migrant face?

What solutions do you suggest to re-integrate returns migrants to their families,
community and job market?

What are the big societal problems that return migration cause?
More unemployment?
Reducing income to the society?
Divorce?
Family unrest?
Mental health problems?
Health problems?