Country Profiles
The GAPs project achieves its aims via multi-disciplinary, qualitative and quantitative comparative research in 13 countries in Europe, Africa and the broader Middle East (including Afghanistan) with 17 partner institutions.
The GAPs project is coordinated by Uppsala University (Sweden) and Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (Germany). The project’s consortium partners include Radboud University (Netherlands), Hammurabi Human Rights Organisation (Iraq), Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (Türkiye), The Hashemite University (Jordan), National Centre for Social Research (Greece), Association Migration Internationale (Morocco), Ryerson University (Canada), The University of Glasgow (UK), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (Nigeria), Bilim Research and Social Studies (Afghanistan), Migration Matters (Germany), University of Warsaw (Poland), Science-Policy Interface Agency (Germany) and University of Sousse (Tunisia).
To capture geographical, socio-spatial, and political variations, the GAPs Project identifies three return systems in line with the EU’s external migration policies:
Central and Western Mediterranean Return route: from EU countries to Africa (Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, and Niger).
Eastern Mediterranean Return route: from EU countries to the broader Middle East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Afghanistan).
Eastern European Return route: from EU to Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Georgia)
