This report explores return migration governance in the African and Middle Eastern regions and the role of the EU by looking at the governance of coerced returns from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq to Syria; from Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya to Nigeria; and from Iran and Turkey to Afghanistan. This study is situated in a context where the migration management of the African and Middle Eastern host…
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This report is part of Work Package 3 (WP3). WP3 is designed to study how return migration governance is put into practice, including how different actors collaborate or work against each other, and what discrepancies emerge and maintain to exist in their daily operation of return migration. In so doing, we work with the concept of Return Migration Infrastructures (RMI)…
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The question of Syrian refugee return has taken center stage following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. This collection of articles by GAPs researchers critically examines whether refugees…
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This Country Dossier investigates the interplay between regional return governance and the European Union's external migration policies. It aims to address the prevalent Eurocentric bias in return migration studies by emphasizing the perspectives of neighboring Global South countries, which are often neglected in academic discourse. Utilizing document analysis…
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Work Package 2 (WP2) of the GAPs Project (Legal and Policy Frameworks of Returns in the EU) focuses on the legal, institutional and policy frameworks regarding the return and readmission policies at the EU level and in the five selected EU member…
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This report has mapped out the legislative, institutional and procedural frameworks and infrastructures concerned with returning the unauthorised migrants from the Netherlands. A focus on the period 2015-2023 was maintained…
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