Last year (2017), I developed a reintegration package for Ethiopia for the ILO in Addis Ababa with Alexandra Ricard Guay. Both the Reintegration package and the Reintegration Background Report have now been published. ILO has used this reintegration package as a starting point to work with the Government of Ethiopia to develop a "Reintegration Directive" that I hope will be further developed and endorsed in Ethiopia soon. "This reintegration package is expected to serve as a point of … [Read more...]
New Project: Fluctuations in Migration Flows on the Balkans Route
Commissioned by the Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum, this project will examine the changes in migration flows to Europe on the Balkans route from 2015-2018. I am excited to lead this project with great partners from Koc University and Erasmus University Rotterdam. This research aims to unpack the changing dynamics of the migration flows on the Western Balkans route including: the policy environment regarding the migration context on the Western Balkans route; the decision … [Read more...]
Deciding Which Road to Take: Insights into How Migrants and Refugees in Greece Plan Onward Movement- MPI Issue Brief
In 2015, faced with a mounting humanitarian crisis on its borders, the European Union introduced a plan to relocate some asylum seekers from overburdened Greece and Italy to other EU countries. Yet Member States’ reluctance to make concrete relocation pledges and asylum seekers’ resistance to being moved to destinations they viewed as less desirable meant that a year on, far fewer had been relocated than was originally envisioned. As EU policymakers debate new proposals to deal with future … [Read more...]
Article in News Deeply on the results of my Rubicon Research project
Eritreans on a bus on the road between Keren and Agordat in Eritrea. Eye Ubiquitous/UIG via Getty Images FOR YEARS, ERITREANS fleeing their homeland have known that, even if they make it to Libya, they will be kidnapped and ransomed. The extortion is systematic. Since the fall of Moammar Gadhafi, the southeast of Libya has been under the partial control of the Tubu tribe, which has established a successful cross-border trade in goods, drugs and people. Kidnappers in this region are … [Read more...]
A Spurious Relationship? Assisted voluntary return and development- Book chapter in The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe
The Routledge Hanbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe, edited by Agnieska Weinar, Saskia Bonjour and Lyubov Zhynomirska, is now out! In this handbook, I have contributed a chapter examining the relationship between Assisted Voluntary Return and Development. I argue that the relationship between AVR and development can be explored in different ways: 1) AVR being counted as official Overseas Development Assistance (ODA); 2) the funding of AVR by country or EU development funds; 3) evidence … [Read more...]
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