The University of Nigeria team in the GAPs project held its second Stakeholder Expert Panel on February 19, 2024, at the Top Rank Hotel Galaxy in Lagos Nigeria. Participants included state and non-state actors. Mr Ngozi Uzomah made the opening remarks, Prof C.K. Ajaero set the context, Mrs Eberechukwu Ezea was in charge of registration of the participants while Prof I. A Madu gave the vote of thanks.…
Read MoreOn February 24, 2024, two years after Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the Polish Institute of Public Policies organised an online conference on 'Ukraine and the European Parliament Elections', as part of the European Parliament Elections 2024 Awareness Campaign. The first panel of the meeting dealt with the general situation two years after the outbreak of the war and its political and military aspects…
Read MoreResearchers of BICC‘s GAPs project and MORE project jointly organised a workshop entitled “Deutsche Rückkehrpolitik und deutsches Abschieberegime” at Göttingen University on February 22-23, 2024. As German cooperation partners, BICC and Göttingen University colleagues overviewed the German return and deportation policy together with researchers…
Read MoreOn 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…
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