A focus group discussion, lasting around 90 minutes, was held with ten Nigerians, who had returned to their country within the last ten years, including five males and five females, aged between 25 and 40. They were held at the Patriotic Citizens’ Initiative (PCI) shelter, which is a transit camp for returnees in Lagos, before they travel to their families in other parts of…
Read MoreMarta Pachocka, PI of the Polish Horizon Europe GAPs team, migration expert in the Team Europe Direct network operating at the European Commission in Poland and researcher from the CMR UW and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, participated as a panelist in the conference on "With a View to multi-level migration management" in Wrocław, Poland…
Read MoreAs a part of Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (HHRO)'s plan to enhance the information available to its research team participating in the Horizon Europe GAPs project and to enrich its field research portfolio, Dr. Khalid AlBayati, a member of…
Read MoreHorizon Europe GAPs team member in Poland, Mateusz Krępa from the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Wa…
Read MoreThe University of Nigeria team in the GAPs project held its second Stakeholder Expert Panel on February 19, 2024, at the Top Rank Hotel Galaxy in Lagos Nigeria. Participants included state and non-state actors. Mr Ngozi Uzomah made the opening remarks, Prof C.K. Ajaero set the context, Mrs Eberechukwu Ezea was in charge of registration of the participants while Prof I. A Madu gave the vote of thanks.…
Read MoreOn February 24, 2024, two years after Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the Polish Institute of Public Policies organised an online conference on 'Ukraine and the European Parliament Elections', as part of the European Parliament Elections 2024 Awareness Campaign. The first panel of the meeting dealt with the general situation two years after the outbreak of the war and its political and military aspects…
Read MoreResearchers of BICC‘s GAPs project and MORE project jointly organised a workshop entitled “Deutsche Rückkehrpolitik und deutsches Abschieberegime” at Göttingen University on February 22-23, 2024. As German cooperation partners, BICC and Göttingen University colleagues overviewed the German return and deportation policy together with researchers…
Read MoreOn February 13, 2024, coordinators of GAPs’ Work Package 4 (at Radboud University) on ‘return migration governance in the African and Middle Eastern regions and the role of the EU’ organized an online internal fieldwork workshop, addressing sampling strategies, tailoring of interview protocols and practicalities of coding and analysis. Representatives of the project’s country teams from Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Türkiye…
Read MoreTwo researchers from the Polish team of the Horizon Europe GAPs project at the Centre of Migration Research of the University of Warsaw (CMR UW), Mateusz Krępa and Tomasz Sieniow, were on a field study in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, between February 19-22, 2024, in connection with research…
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