Nigeria is a major source of asylum seekers to Europe. Yet, the EU perceive Nigeria as a safe origin country resulting in low acceptance rate of Nigerian…
Read MoreThis Country Dossier investigates the interplay between regional return governance and the European Union's external migration policies. It aims to address the prevalent Eurocentric bias in return migration studies by emphasizing the perspectives of neighboring Global South countries, which are often neglected in academic discourse. Utilizing document analysis…
Read MoreSeveral studies on return diplomacy focus on how the EU and its member states use their power and resources to shape negotiation outcomes and control migration by developing bilateral, regional, and inter-regional mechanisms and through international organizations. As a result, studies on return (migration)…
Read MoreThe International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) return crisis-affected populations as part of their humanitarian interventions under the assumption that return represents a solution to the initial displacement. This assumption raises the question of…
Read MoreThis working paper explores how the irregularisation of migration is produced and reproduced through the workings of the legal and institutional framework of migration and asylum in the case of Greece. Irregularity is not considered here only as a legal status (or the absence of it), but as the outcome of policies, institutional arrangements.…
Read MoreMigration remains an essential factor in the dynamics of EU politics. This working paper aims to broaden our understanding of the cooperation mechanism between the EU and Georgia in the context of the EU’s externalisation of migration policies…
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