New Policy Brief Calls for Reasonable Solutions for Syrian Refugee Returns
BICC has published a new policy brief entitled Syrian Refugee Returns: What Policy Must Do based on the GAPs and REMIG projects. The brief contributes to timely debates on return migration, urging policymakers to apply reasonable, sustainable, and rights-based solutions.
Published by Osman Bahadır Dinçer, Ruth Vollmer, Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek, and Selina Engelberth, the brief highlights the risk of return and provides key policy recommendations:
Allow refugees to travel to Syria ahead of return
Target support to return planners in the short term
Make transitional support a priority to enable sustainable reintegration
Engage Syrian diaspora in integration and reconstruction efforts
Jamil Alyou, representing the recently established Refugee Advisory Board Germany, emphasized the need for inclusive and fact-based policy strategies.
28 representatives from German ministries and migration specialists were involved in discussions on concrete steps toward protection-focused and long-term stability-focused return policy.