Press release: Inside Europe’s migration machine: Rare first-hand accounts of immigration detention and deportation
For immediate release 10 December 2025 The EU-funded FAiR research project has published “
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MEPs Warn Return Policies Must Be Developed with Scientific Community, Not Driven by Politics
Brussels - MEPs warn that citing research is not enough. Migration policies should be grounded in real evidence On November 19, 2025 at the European Parliament, a stark warning was…
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Radio Interview: Sending single male asylum seekers back to Belgium? That is no longer allowed.
Radio Interview (in Dutch) with Professor Arjen Leerkes (EUR) on
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Interview: People with a migration background face disadvantages at nearly every step in the criminal justice chain
Wilmer Heck published on Newspaper NRC From registration in police systems, to referral to the Public Prosecutor’s Office (OM), to the judge’s decision and the imposition of detention: people with…
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Opinion: Punishing Undocumented Migrants — We Already Know It Doesn’t Work
The asylum law is inhumane and ill-conceived, write Laura Cleton and Arjen Leerkes. Let the Senate put an end to it.
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‘Return hubs’: What is the EU’s new plan for deporting migrants and why is it stirring debate?
Backed by right-wing parties, the European Commission has proposed legal measures that would allow rejected asylum seekers to be deported to third countries, as part of a 'stricter' stance on…
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Interview: Between ‘voluntary’ and ‘forced’ return: Erasmus University Rotterdam research project looks at deportation policy in the Netherlands
published on 14 Apr 2025 | originally from Erasmus University Rotterdam and
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