WORK PACKAGES

WP1 Project Management

This work package aims to:

ensure internal coherency of the project by providing a clear project management structure for the entire project, which is needed for internal management (administrative, financial, monitoring and evaluation) but also for making sure that the different parts of the projects are well coordinated.

Lead by Erasmus University Rotterdam

WP2 Common Foundations

This work package aims to:

strengthen the common conceptual and empirical basis for subsequent data collection and analyses in Work packages 3-8.

Lead by Erasmus University Rotterdam

WP3 Intergovernmental Return Frameworks

This work package aims to:

collect, systematize and assess intergovernmental return frameworks and their underlying negotiation processes, and identify ways forward in the formulation of effective and legitimate intergovernmental return frameworks.

Lead by University of Geneva

WP4 Non-EU and diasporic (counter) discourses

This work packages aims to:

1. To identify the main public discourses and counter-discourses on immigration, emigration, and (enforced) return and to assess how these discourses and counter discourses arise and are embedded in broader public and private discussions in non-EU source and transit countries and diaspora.
2. To assess how these discourses relate to the position on, and experiences with, policies and outcomes of enforced return among key non-EU+ actors: national and local authorities, NGOs, returnees, and hosts of returnees.

Lead by Samuel Hall

WP5 International Bureaucracy and Redocumentation

This work packages aims to:

1. To contextualize and critically engage with EU approaches to the international bureaucracy of identification and travel document issuance in the context of return and readmission.
2. To conduct case studies of the international bureaucracy of return and readmission, focusing on the return corridors between (Switzerland/Germany and Iraq (the Kurdish Regional Government)/Turkey, as well as studying challenges in the Germany – Niger corridor. Topics cover the cooperation on return, e.g. the issuance and verification of ID and travel documents.
3. Through these case studies in one EU, one EU + and three third countries, to explain bureaucratic bottlenecks and identify good practice with regards to issues of identity verification and the issuance of travel documents.

Lead by Erasmus University Rotterdam

WP6 Alternatives to return

This work packages aims to:

assess alternatives to return policies, including various forms of regularization (e.g., amnesties, track switching programmes) and other policies that accommodate the presence of irregular migrants who cannot easily be ‘returned’. It will investigate the political feasibility of existing and innovative policies in different EU+ contexts, and assess the acceptance of these alternatives in the eyes of different EU citizens, including the effects of perceived non-enforcement on citizens’ support for immigration from non-EU+ countries to Europe.

Lead by University of Milan

WP7 Monitoring of Enforced Return and Reintegration

This work packages aims to:

examine how fundamental rights are being taken into account in designing, implementing and monitoring return processes in various EU member states. This includes examination of the legal safeguards (or lack of them) to ensure that each and every stage of return process is conducted with effective guarantees to preserve fundamental rights of migrants (e.g. protection against refoulement, correct execution of forced-return procedures).

Lead by INP PAN

WP8 Migration outcomes

This work packages aims to:

test the effects of known and suspected determinants of enforced return and to estimate the migration responses of (non-)enforcement of returns.

Lead by UWK

WP9 Exploitation, Dissemination and Communication

This work package aims to:

1. Create impact and ensure that relevant stakeholders are engaged in the project, giving them the opportunity to cocreate the research findings.
2. Tailor the project results according to the needs of practitioners, policy makers, scholars and communities involved in return, using a plethora of targeted communication and dissemination tools.

Lead by ICMPD