On 18th October I had the pleasure to return to Athens to present in a launch event of IOMs Global Migration and Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) on a paper commissioned on 'Understanding Safe and Sustainable Return'. In the presentation I discussed the current context of return from Europe, how to define and measure sustainable return, research gaps and recommendations for further research. The report is in progress and will be posted soon. … [Read more...]
Return and Reintegration of Migrants: IOM Report Launch
On 16 January 2015, IOM hosted a roundtable event to the launch report Comparative Research on Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration. Prof. Khalid Koser and I had been working on this project for the previous year, which looked at three primary objectives of: 1) Understanding the decision to return 2) Developing a method to define and measure sustainable return 3) Examining the factors that determine sustainable return Further event details and the report are available … [Read more...]