The preliminary phase of the GAPs Data Repository was unveiled at the 5th International Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies (NWFF), held in Bonn, Germany, from September 16-18, 2024. During the panel session, experts discussed the complex methodological challenges researchers encounter in return migration studies, focusing on both qualitative and...
Read MoreOn August 28, 2024, Tomasz Sieniow, a member of the Horizon Europe GAPs team at the Centre of Migration Research of the University of Warsaw, took part in a popular radio program “Światopodgląd” on Radio TOK FM, a major Polish supra-regional radio station of an informative and journalistic nature, broadcasting across dozens of Polish cities, as well as via the Internet...
Read MoreOn September 2, 2024, Marta Pachocka (from the Horizon Europe GAPs team at the Centre of Migration Research of the University of Warsaw) co-organised and moderated the CMR webinar ''International integration practices - lessons learned”. The aim of the eventwas to discuss international practices of migrant integration in countries with longer-standing and more extensive experience in migration governance than Poland. The webinar resulted from cooperation between the Laboratory of Urban and Regional Migration Policies & Migration…
Read MoreWe are excited to announce the publication of a significant new article by GAPs team members, Zeynep Sahin-Mencutek and Anna Triandafyllidou, in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, as a part of the special issue on Special issue: Governing Transit and Irregular Migration: Beyond Formal Policies and Informal Practices edited by Maria Koinova. The article, titled "Coerced Return: Formal Policies, Informal Practices, and Migrants’ Navigation," provides an in-depth exploration of how formal policies and informal...
Read MoreIn the global policy discourse on humanitarian migrants, return has become the preferred ‘durable solution.’ Since the vast majority of migrants and refugees move and reside in and among countries in the immediate region of their origin countries, return migration will also predominantly take place within the region of countries in crisis. Yet, scholarly concerns have overwhelmingly focused on the minority of migrants who travelled further afield, in particular to the European Union, and return from there to their regions of origin. Relatively little attention has been given to return policies and practices of neighboring receiving states…
Read MoreThe University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), a partner in the GAPs Project, participated in the South-East zonal workshop for the review of Nigeria’s 2015 National Migration Policy (NMP). The International Organization for Migration (IOM) organized this review, which took place between 17 - 19 July 2024 at Psalms Hotel and Suites, Enugu in Enugu State for the South-East zone of Nigeria. The review has already been conducted in South-West, North-West and North-Central…
Read MoreMarta Pachocka chaired the online session on “Border control and return policies,” which included five paper presentations on specific cases from diverse geopolitical contexts, such as Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The presentations…
Read MoreMateusz Krępa, from CMR, Univeristy of Warsaw, Horizon Europe GAPs team partner, actively engaged in the media and press to discuss the recent developments regarding the Polish-Belarusian border…
Read MoreDr. Khalid Al-Bayati, a member of the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (HHRO) research team member of the GAPs Horizon Europe project consortium, was one of the keynote speakers at the Iraq Migration Management Conference (June 8-9, 2024)…
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