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
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This research digest examines the EU-Georgia readmission agreement (signed 2011) as a paradigmatic case of EU migration externalisation policy, revealing both its operational success and strategic limitations. Georgia, a small Eastern Partnership country characterized by high emigration (over 20% of its population), has been widely lauded as a EU "success story" for…
Read MoreThis Poland-Georgia country dossier is part of Work Package 3 (WP3) of the GAPs project. This work package aims to study how return migration governance is put into practice through the concept of ‘Return Migration Infrastructures’. In this report we present three types of returns—assisted voluntary returns, forced removals, and pushbacks…
Read MoreThe report presents findings on migration trajectories of various categories of migrants in Poland. The research focused on return as a result of a given person’s experience and aspirations. The primary data were obtained through qualitative analysis of 31 individual in-depth interviews with migrants. The study draws on a critical approach to migration, assuming a continuum of coercion in different…
Read MoreMigration remains an essential factor in the dynamics of EU politics. This working paper aims to broaden our understanding of the cooperation mechanism between the EU and Georgia in the context of the EU’s externalisation of migration policies…
Read MoreThis snapshot of Italy provides an in-depth examination of the legal, institutional, and policy frameworks governing migrant returns and readmissions in Italy. The snapshot contextualises Italy’s position as a primary entry point for migrants in the Mediterranean, driven by migratory pressures from North Africa and the Middle East. Over recent decades, Italy’s approach to migration management…
Read MoreWork Package 2 (WP2) of the GAPs Project (Legal and Policy Frameworks of Returns in the EU) focuses on the legal, institutional and policy frameworks regarding the return and readmission policies at the EU level and in the five selected EU member…
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