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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.
The key objectives of this comparative survey report are to identify similarities and differences in structural conditions, demographic profiles, and return and reintegration experiences, including levels of hope and resilience during the reintegration phase across four key returnee countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria…
Read MoreThis report presents an indicator proposal to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of return governance by systematically linking policy design, implementation practices, and observable outcomes. Building on the policy effectiveness framework…
Read MoreThis concept note, prepared as part of WP9 of the GAPs project, aims to identify and categorise “good” and “promising” practices regarding coerced returns. Synthesising findings from GAPs Work Packages 2-9, it proposes both an analytical framework and a standardised structure to support a comparative and multi-dimensional mapping of returnrelated practices across selected countries.
Read MoreThis report analyses post-return practices and experiences of Iraqi migrants who returned from European countries within the framework of the GAPs project, based on survey data from 250 returnees across 11 governorates and complementary qualitative insights. It shows that, despite an expanded legal and institutional framework for return governance, weak coordination, limited financial and psychosocial…
Read MoreThis report examines how European return policies towards Iraqi migrants generate trade‑offs between state interests in migration control and the protection of fundamental human rights within return programmes. It explores return cases from Sweden and Germany, focusing on Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) schemes and how these are incorporated within…
Read MoreThis report provides a snapshot of the nature of the return migration infrastructure in Iraq, represented by the services provided to returning migrants, whether they returned through forced, assisted or voluntary means. The report focuses on Iraqi returnees from EU countries and it starts with a historical overview of the major waves of migration that Iraq has witnessed over the past decades, as well as their motives, time stages, trends, and available numbers over time…
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