Country Dossier Lebanon: Return migration governance in the African and Middle Eastern regions and the role of the EU

This 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…

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AU-EU Cooperation on Returns: Understanding Transregional Dialogues and Contesting Regional Mobility Agendas

Several 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)…

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Between Discipline and Biopolitics: The Role of IOM and UNHCR in the Return of Crisis-Affected Populations

The 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…

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Procedures of irregularisation in Greece: spatial, carceral and temporal aspects

This 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.…

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