Here is a new working paper that provides an overview of Assisted Voluntary Return from Europe. Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) is a central component of European Union (EU) member states migration management policies and has grown in popularity over the past two decades. At present, all EU member states have active AVR programmes, however, despite the growing prevalence of these programmes there has been a dearth of research and evaluation on AVR. In addition, a common goal of these AVR … [Read more...]
New Working Paper: The role of migration‐specific and migration‐relevant policies in migrant decision‐making in transit
In follow-up to the Occasional Paper 'Understanding Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Transit' Khalid Koser and I have just published this working paper that further examines the role of policies in migrants decision making. Abstract This paper examines the role of migration-specific and migration-relevant policies in migrant decision-making factors for onwards migration or stay in Greece and Turkey. In this paper we distinguish migration-specific … [Read more...]
Coming Soon: Reintegration Strategies
I am happy to announce that my book 'Reintegration Strategies' is expected to be published by Springer in September 2017. This book critically examines and theorizes the process of how return migrants reintegrate into their countries of origin. The result is a new methodology for understanding the experiences of return migrants, or their 'reintegration strategies'. This approach demonstrates that reintegration strategies differ by type of return migrant, leading to variations in how far they are … [Read more...]
EMN Germany Annual Conference: Reintegration and Sustainable Return
On 4 May I spoke at the EMN Germany Annual Conference on: Return Counselling – Integrated Return Management – Reintegration. My talk focused on the relationship between sustainable return, remigration, reintegration and the return decision making process. The conference was very timely as Germany is investing 150 million Euros into return and reintegration programmes over the next three years. In 2016 alone, over half of all assisted voluntary returns facilitated by IOM were returning from … [Read more...]
Mygration Story
At UNU-Merit our communications coordinator Howard Hudson started a series on the migration stories of staff at the UNU. This is a great series that shows the diversity of family histories and individuals migration experiences at UNU. I have had the pleasure to recently contribute to the series with my own story reposted here. Mygration Story: From Tsarist Oppression to Trudeau Tolerance As a Canadian, my ‘mygration’ story is not unusual – a mix of different places and several … [Read more...]
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