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...]
Libya is not Turkey: why the EU plan to stop Mediterranean migration is a human rights concern
EU leaders have agreed to a plan that will provide Libya’s UN-backed government €200 million for dealing with migration. This includes an increase in funding for the Libyan coastguard, with an overall aim to stop migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean to Italy. Based on the perceived policy success of the 2016 EU-Turkey deal on stopping migrant boats reaching Greece from the west coast of Turkey, known as the eastern Mediterranean route, this deal is intended to have a similar effect on the … [Read more...]
EuroNews Opinions Piece on Migrants in Greece and Turkey
In order to stem the flow of migrants crossing into Europe, the EU signed a deal with Turkey that aims to return migrants without an asylum claim to Turkey. Recently, EU leaders met in Malta and agreed to a new deal with Libya aimed at curtailing the flow of migrants from Libya to Italy. The EU-Turkey deal has been viewed as successful from a policy standpoint in that it has effectively reduced the number of boats crossing from Turkey to Greece. Yet, it is important for us to reflect on why … [Read more...]
Why Don’t Refugees Just Stay in Turkey or Greece? We asked them
Here is a post co-authored with Khalid Koser for the Conversation (re-posted here). It has also been reposted to Time, World Economic Forum, and the Huffington Post. Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters The European Commission has decided to start returning migrants from other European countries back to Greece, lifting a ban on the practice that was put in place in 2011. The decision is influenced by concerns that 13,000 migrants recently disappeared from camps in Northern … [Read more...]
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