A/HRC/20/24/Add.1 social services and institutional capacity. 34 The role of social workers in facilitating sustainable reintegration through the promotion of social and economic rights of returnees at the local level is critical, in particular in regard to vulnerable groups. Noting the limited role assigned to social workers in the reintegration strategy, 35 the system of child protection units with dedicated social workers who provide psychosocial services to children and families at risk36 could present a good practice to build on in this respect. E. Institutional oversight 53. The Special Rapporteur notes that accountability and monitoring of the return and reintegration strategy is entrusted to the Inter-institutional Committee on Measures against Organized Crime, Trafficking and Terrorism, with the assistance of the Ministry of Labour.37 He is of the view that a return strategy with sustainable reintegration with human rights and social protection at heart may more appropriately be implemented under the guidance and responsibility of a body such as the Technical Committee on Migration or the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration. VII. Foreign migrants 54. Immigration to Albania is still negligent in comparison to the large number of migrants leaving the country. Some 4,000–4,500 documented foreign nationals are estimated to reside in Albania. 38 However, like other countries in Western Balkans, Albania is increasingly becoming a county of transit, characterized by the “transiting flow of nonEuropean irregular migrants that enter the EU at the Greece-Turkey border and continue from Greece to other Member States”.39 The Special Rapporteur received reports that the number of third country nationals who are refused entry into Albania has steadily increased40 – a trend intimately linked to the common policy objective of the European Union and Albania to combat “illegal immigration more effectively”. 41 The Special Rapporteur is concerned at protection gaps in law and practice in the current response to irregular migration – immigration detention – with negative consequences also for a human rights based-asylum and refugee regime. A. Asylum-seekers and refugees 55. The number of refugees and asylum-seekers in Albania is very small. The Special Rapporteur learned from the Department of Citizenship and Refugees that 32 asylumseekers, 58 refugees and 6 persons seeking temporary protection were recognized in Albania at the time of the visit. Amendments to the Law on Asylum – including the right to 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 16 National Human Development Report, p. 56. “Strategy on reintegration of returned Albanian citizens”, p. 21. See report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (E/CN.4/2006/67/Add.2), para. 90. “Strategy on reintegration of returned Albanian citizens”, p. 20. Submission to the Special Rapporteur by the United Nations country team, November 2011, p. 3. European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX), Western Balkan Annual Risk Analysis 2011 (Warsaw, 2011), p. 4. Submission the Committee on Migrant Workers by the United Nations country team, 2010. Readmission Agreement between the European Community and Albania, preamble.