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GAPS’ Working Paper Series ‘Decentring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond’ features recent research output by the team members of 17 partner institutions involved in the Horizon Europe GAPS project, and is open to all researchers working on similar topics.
We welcome proposals for Working Papers from researchers. Please contact: soner.barthoma@crs.uu.se
For further paper submission rules and author guidelines, more information will be available here.
This study investigates public attitudes toward return migration in five European countries: Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. Using survey data, it explores perceptions of return policies, the condition under which asylum seekers should return, and the social and personal factors shaping these opinions.
Read MoreThis study critically examines the tensions between state-led return migration policies and the responses of diaspora/migrant organizations (DO/MOs) in Sweden and Germany. While policymakers increasingly frame diasporas as “key partners” in facilitating voluntary…
Read MoreThis Country Dossier on Germany presents an overview of the assisted and forced return migration infrastructures (RMIs) in Germany, focusing on the most populous federal state of Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), as a case study. It examines how return migration governance is put into practice through the concept of RMIs. Federalism in Germany grants autonomy to local governments, and federal law assigns responsibility for…
Read MoreThe GAPs Data Repository provides an overview of available qualitative and quantitative data on national return regimes by structuring them into five main categories: profile, legislation, infrastructure, international cooperation and…
Read MoreThis report focuses on the legislative and institutional frameworks, as well as the procedural infrastructure related to the return of rejected asylum seekers and other unauthorised migrants from Germany between 2015 and 2023…
Read MoreThe overall aim of the GAPs project is to decentre the dominant, one-sided understanding of 'return policymaking' by bringing multiple perspectives into play and studying the complex…
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