.fost-return reintegration: The experiences of Ethiopian men deportees from Saudi Arabia The issues of Ethiopian deportees, deported in mass from KSA, became crucial topic since the late 201..3 in Ethiopia. Only little is known about this group of deportees. Around 4000 of the 163, 018 Ethiopian deportees from KSA in late 2013 rejoined a single community, Raya Kobo, about whom no scientific research had been conducted. The purpose of this paper, therefore, was to cultivate understanding on the reintegration strategies, reintegration challenges and future plans of Ethiopian men deportees in a socio-culturally distinctive setting of Raya Kobo. An in­ depth interview data, which was framed based on a qualitatively phenomenological inquiry design guided by a constructivism oriented interpretive theoretical lens, analyzed by using thematic analytical method to cultivate knowledge about reintegration from the subjective understandings of the participants. The findings unfold that the reintegration patterns of the participants found approached to the theoretical traditionalist and vulnerable reintegration stra~gies with significant variations: behind the reintegration challenges were an. adverse structural return environment and the participants' pre-deportation experiences: among the challenges were inadequate assistances, limited access to the labor market, social stigma and the resultant "downward leveling norms", politico-legal concerns. The reintegration conditions of the participants and their future plans found interconnected and mutually reinforcing. They planned to reintegrate into the private business and the educational sectors in Ethiopia, and to re­ migrate to KSA. The study has implications o1i the need of social work post graduation programs on to incorporate return migration and reintegration course/s; for Ethiopian social policy as empirical input for policy discourses, and for micro and macro social work practice, among others. Key-terms: Deportation, men deportees, reintegration, Raya Kobo, qualitatively phenomenological inquiry design, constructivism oriented interpretive theoretical lens.