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...]

On Wednesday 14 September, I had the pleasure to give a brown bag seminar at the World Bank on the results of our Understanding Irregular Migrants Decision Making Processes in Transit Project. The presentation highlighted some of our key findings that will be available soon in our forthcoming Occassional Paper for the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Key points of discussion included the role of information sources influencing migrants destination choices in Europe, … [Read more...]

On June 1, I started my new position as a NWO funded Rubicon Research Fellow with the Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. I will be based at EUI for the next two years while conducting research on irregular migrants decision making factors in Italy. My project aims to address the follow three questions: How do irregular migrants’ chose to apply for asylum in Italy, migrate onwards or stay in Italy without making an … [Read more...]