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[Event] National Training on physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) in Banjul, The Gambia

• BICC, together with the Small Arms Division of the ECOWAS Commission, supported a national training on physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) with a special focus on the storage of ammunition for 20 participants from both the Gambian Armed Forces as well as the Gambian Police.
• Monday, 14 October 2019: This course, conducted by the German Verification Center (ZVBw) and financed by the German Foreign Office, aimed at using as well as tailoring international small arms and ammunition control standards to local contexts. It follows an official request by the Gambian government earlier this year to the ECOWAS Commission to support the nation’s weapons and ammunition storage capacities. It was generously funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

[Project] Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change

•   Over the course of four years (2019–2023), the qualitative and multi-sited research project “Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change” conducted a long-term investigation of the reintegration trajectories of returning migrants and (internally) displaced persons.The study investigated the living conditions of returnees and asked for their perceptions, experiences and strategies against the background of the socio-political context in...

[Project] Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change

•   Over the course of four years (2019–2023), the qualitative and multi-sited research project “Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change” conducted a long-term investigation of the reintegration trajectories of returning migrants and (internally) displaced persons.The study investigated the living conditions of returnees and asked for their perceptions, experiences and strategies against the background of the socio-political context in...

[Project] Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change

•   Over the course of four years (2019–2023), the qualitative and multi-sited research project “Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change” conducted a long-term investigation of the reintegration trajectories of returning migrants and (internally) displaced persons.The study investigated the living conditions of returnees and asked for their perceptions, experiences and strategies against the background of the socio-political context in...

[Project] Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change

•   Over the course of four years (2019–2023), the qualitative and multi-sited research project “Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change” conducted a long-term investigation of the reintegration trajectories of returning migrants and (internally) displaced persons.The study investigated the living conditions of returnees and asked for their perceptions, experiences and strategies against the background of the socio-political context in...

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[Publication] Talking at Cross-Purposes? On Ambigous Relationships between International Policies on Return and Reintegration and their loc...

• Talking at Cross-Purposes? On Ambigous Relationships between International Policies on Return and Reintegration and their local Conceptualisations in Ghana, the Gambia and Senegal
• This Working Paper explores and compares return to and reintegration in Ghana, the Gambia and Senegal while setting different positionalities of migrants against migration and return regimes and broader socio-economic inequalities. The Paper first highlights the trajectories and motivations of migrants and returnees, including a group-centred perspective on the continuous relevance of relations with the communities of origin. Then, it relates migrant journeys to diverging national ...

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• PublicationsahinMencütek Z Mielke K SchmitzPranghe C & Vollmer R 2023 When Returning Home Feels Like Hell IPS Journal Mielke K ahinMencütek Z SchmitzPranghe C & Vollmer R 2023 Zurück zu Hause oder zurück in der Hölle FriedrichEbertStiftungFakhoury T & ahinMencütek Z 2023 The Geopolitics of Return Migration in the International SystemSpecial Issue of Geopolitics 120ahinMencütek Z 2023 The Role of Return Preparedness Assistance and Networks in Returnees Reintegration in Origin Countries Synthesis...

[Page] TRAJECTORIES OF REINTEGRATION. THE IMPACTS OF DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION AND RETURN ON SOCIAL CHANGE

• PublicationsahinMencütek Z Mielke K SchmitzPranghe C & Vollmer R 2023 When Returning Home Feels Like Hell IPS Journal Mielke K ahinMencütek Z SchmitzPranghe C & Vollmer R 2023 Zurück zu Hause oder zurück in der Hölle FriedrichEbertStiftungFakhoury T & ahinMencütek Z 2023 The Geopolitics of Return Migration in the International SystemSpecial Issue of Geopolitics 120ahinMencütek Z 2023 The Role of Return Preparedness Assistance and Networks in Returnees Reintegration in Origin Countries Synthesis...

[Page] TRAJECTORIES OF REINTEGRATION. THE IMPACTS OF DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION AND RETURN ON SOCIAL CHANGE

• PublicationsahinMencütek Z Mielke K SchmitzPranghe C & Vollmer R 2023 When Returning Home Feels Like Hell IPS Journal Mielke K ahinMencütek Z SchmitzPranghe C & Vollmer R 2023 Zurück zu Hause oder zurück in der Hölle FriedrichEbertStiftungFakhoury T & ahinMencütek Z 2023 The Geopolitics of Return Migration in the International SystemSpecial Issue of Geopolitics 120ahinMencütek Z 2023 The Role of Return Preparedness Assistance and Networks in Returnees Reintegration in Origin Countries Synthesis...