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Working Paper [German]: Bleibeperspektiven als Alternative zur Abschiebung?
Author: Elina Jonitz - Erasmus University Rotterdam This working paper offers an in-depth analysis of labor- and integration-related regularization pathways in Germany as potentially promising solutions for ‘tolerated’ migrants whose…
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Report: Determinants of Enforced Return:
In recent decades, scholars documented the rise of enforced return in the Global North and scrutinised the vast infrastructure, international diplomacy, and in-country measures that set out to boost these.…
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Working Paper: Policy Drivers of Enforced Return
Authors: “‘Nothing Works’? A Quantitative Assessment of the Effects of Different Types of Return and Readmission Frameworks on EU Member States’ Enforced Return Rates” by Ana Maria Torres Chedraui - Erasmus University Rotterdam,…
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Working paper: Non-policy Drivers of Enforced Return
Authors: Jiancheng Gu & Mathias Czaika - University for Continuing Education Krems The text tackles a puzzle that keeps resurfacing in EU migration debates. Even with heavy political pressure, only about…
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Report: Modelling Techniques of Return Enforcement Drivers & Outcomes
Authors: Mathias Czaika & Jiancheng Gu -University for Continuing Education Krems The piece looks at why return and readmission policies, although central to EU migration governance, work so unevenly in…
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Report: Empirically Derived Quality Criteria for Processes of Identification and Travel Documents and for Measuring Collaborativeness with Return Policies
Authors: Laura Cleton - Erasmus University Rotterdam, Lisa Pfister - Samuel Hall, Nassim Majidi - Samuel Hall, Alexis McLean – International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Müge Dalkıran - Koç…
read moreWorking Paper: Comparative Case Study Analysis of Intergovernmental Return Frameworks
Authors: Frown Rausis and Sandra Lavenex, University of Geneva (UNIGE The paper digs into how European states and EU institutions negotiate the return of people without valid residence permits to…
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Policy Brief: Variation and Drivers in Intergovernmental Return Frameworks
Authors: Frown Rausis and Sandra Lavenex, University of Geneva This Policy Brief presents recommendations for the EU and EU+ states negotiating Intergovernmental Return Frameworks (IRFs) with non-European states. In recent…
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