On February 13, 2024, coordinators of GAPs’ Work Package 4 (at Radboud University) on ‘return migration governance in the African and Middle Eastern regions and the role of the EU’ organized an online internal fieldwork workshop, addressing sampling strategies, tailoring of interview protocols and practicalities of coding and analysis. Representatives of the project’s country teams from Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Türkiye…
Read MoreTwo researchers from the Polish team of the Horizon Europe GAPs project at the Centre of Migration Research of the University of Warsaw (CMR UW), Mateusz Krępa and Tomasz Sieniow, were on a field study in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, between February 19-22, 2024, in connection with research…
Read MoreOn February 15, 2024, the HE GAPs research team from the Center of Migration Research (CMR), University of Warsaw (UW), participated in the Meeting of National Experts of the…
Read MoreWP7 leaders Susan Rottmann and Maissam Nimer, Ozyegin University organized a Digital Storytelling Training on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 in coordination with Sopia Burton, cofounder of Migration Matters, a partner in the consortium. Each country team conducting research in WP7 will provide audio and visual material that can be turned into 2 short (1-3 minutes) online digital stories about return trajectories. A variety of formats may be possible. Migrants can film themselves speaking directly to the viewer about their perspective, present photos (of people, places, objects)…
Read MoreIn a recent roundtable panel discussion (18 December 2023) led by Professor Rebecca Thorburn Stern (Uppsala University), organized within the framework of Horizon Europe GAPs project, key stakeholders in Sweden's migration landscape shared insights and reflections on return operations in the country. The experts present were Martin Nyman from the Swedish Refugee Law Center, Agneta Carlberger Kundoori from Delmi (The Migration Study Delegation)…
Read MoreOn January 19, 2024, the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) organized the first Stakeholder Expert Panel (SEP) of the GAPs: De-centring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond Project in Istanbul with the…
Read MoreOn January 17, 2024, the Center of Migration Research (CMR), University of Warsaw (UW) organized the first hybrid Stakeholder Expert Panel (SEP) meeting within the GAPs project, in Warsaw. The aim of the SEP meeting was to familiarise experts with the project as well as to present the near final version of the country research report on legal and policy infrastructures of returns and readmission in Poland (WP2) and to discuss the results, identified gaps and formulated policy recommendations…
Read MoreThe Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM) has been a landmark agreement since its adoption in 2018, bringing nations together to address the complexities of international migration collaboratively. The GCM Champions Initiative, comprising 33 Member States worldwide, is pivotal in promoting effective GCM implementation. The recent 3rd Informal Cross-Regional Dialogue in Accra, Ghana, brought together representatives from Africa, Arab States, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, marking…
Read MoreThis GAPs newsitem aims to present insights from the National Workshop on the reintegration of Moroccans returning home which took place on December 5, 2023 and was attended by GAPs project partner International Migration Association (AMI). This event constituted a significant step towards fostering collaboration and support. Organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as part of the "Protection, Return, and Reintegration for Migrants in North Africa" program, supported by the European Union, the event aimed to address key challenges and to pave the way for…
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