17 December 2025 - Return diplomacy is often done behind closed doors, with very little space for actors such as CSOs and NGOs to engage with Governments on their practical…

by Gül Ince Beqo Caption photo: My last day of university which represents the complicated transition from study to employment.  My fieldwork with irregular migrant women applying for Italy’s 2020…

By Julia Guerin, ICMPD and Antonella Patteri, INP PAN The FAiR project recently organised an interactive dissemination workshop to present findings and exchange with key stakeholders on current practices and main…

By Valeria Ilareva, Foundation for Access to Rights The moment everything changed In January 2015, I was living an ordinary rhythm as a lawyer in Sofia. One evening I clicked…

by Arjen Leerkes and Albert Kraler On 22 May 2025, a group of EU Member States - including Italy, Denmark, and Poland - published an open letter expressing frustration about…

Centering Returnees’ Voices in Policy and Practice In this blog, we share insights from the FAiR project which  centres on the voices of returnees to rethink how return migration policies…

From 14–16 May, the FAiR consortium came together in vibrant Istanbul for its mid-term meeting, hosted by the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) under the leadership of Prof.…

By Frowin Rausis The FAiR project recently convened an international stakeholder workshop in Geneva to strengthen the dialogue between academic research and policy practice on return diplomacy, and to jointly…

by Alizia Kamani and Jovana Ostojic, Science Communicators “Now that you’ve translated my research, it’s lost its nuance; I’m not comfortable having my name on it anymore.” If you’ve ever…