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• [Press] New Publication \ Preparation and Networks are Key for Returning Migrants: Findings based on Four Years of Research at BICC on Returnees' Reintegration Trajectories

  • Migrant receiving countries in Europe have set up assistance programmes to facilitate the return and reintegration of rejected asylum-seekers, migrants with no legal status or those wanting to return. The question is: Do assistance programmes actually do so, and how do reintegration trajectories take shape from the perspectives of the returnees themselves? These were key questions in the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)-funded research project ‘Trajectories o...
  • Friday, 31 March 2023: Results of the comprehensive empirical research are synthesised in BICC’s latest report: The Role of Return Preparedness, Assistance and Networks in Returnees’ Reintegration in Origin Countries (Synthesis Report).This report summarises the findings of four case studies conducted in the Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, Albania, Kosovo), West Africa (Ghana, Senegal and the Gambia) and the Middle East (Iraq). With the support of local researchers, the BICC team condu...

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

  • ahinMencütek 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 Report Bonn...

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

  • ahinMencütek 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 Report Bonn...

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

  • ahinMencütek 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 Report Bonn...

• [Publication] The Role of Return Preparedness, Assistance and Networks in Returnees’ Reintegration in Origin Countries (Synthesis Report)

  • Across the destination countries of migration, i.e. migrant-receiving countries, in Europe there has been an increasing emphasis on return and reintegration programmes. These programmes particularly target rejected asylum-seekers forced to return, irregular migrants unable to legalise their stay in the migration country and migrants wishing to return of their own volition. Reintegration commonly refers to the processes that unfold after the return of migrants, refugees and internally displaced p...

• [Publication] The Role of Return Preparedness, Assistance and Networks in Returnees’ Reintegration in Origin Countries (Synthesis Report)

  • Across the destination countries of migration, i.e. migrant-receiving countries, in Europe there has been an increasing emphasis on return and reintegration programmes. These programmes particularly target rejected asylum-seekers forced to return, irregular migrants unable to legalise their stay in the migration country and migrants wishing to return of their own volition. Reintegration commonly refers to the processes that unfold after the return of migrants, refugees and internally displaced p...

• [Staff] Lena Engel

  • Student Assistant
  • Lena is a student of political science, sociology and English (B.A.) at the University of Bonn.  In her studies, Lena deals with various socio-critical and political topics and she analyses the governmental systems of different African states. Before and during her studies, she worked in various fields and completed different internships, for example, at an NGO in The Gambia or the German embassy school in Ethiopia. Lena supports the Chief Officer of Public Relations in various...

• [Staff] Milena Berks

  • Researcher / Project Officer
  • Milena joined BICC in 2021 as a researcher and project officer supporting the joint project between BICC and the UN Department of Peace Operations on the Revision and Dissemination of the United Nations Integrated Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration Standards (IDDRS). She now works on a follow-up project focusing on regional approaches to dealing with armed groups in the Sahel, exploring regional conflict dynamics, including the linkage between armed groups, the exploitation of natura...

• [Staff] Milena Berks

  • Researcher / Project Officer
  • Milena joined BICC in 2021 as a researcher and project officer supporting the joint project between BICC and the UN Department of Peace Operations on the Revision and Dissemination of the United Nations Integrated Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration Standards (IDDRS). She now works on a follow-up project focusing on regional approaches to dealing with armed groups in the Sahel, exploring regional conflict dynamics, including the linkage between armed groups, the exploitation of natura...

• [Staff] Milena Berks

  • Researcher / Project Officer
  • Milena joined BICC in 2021 as a researcher and project officer supporting the joint project between BICC and the UN Department of Peace Operations on the Revision and Dissemination of the United Nations Integrated Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration Standards (IDDRS). She now works on a follow-up project focusing on regional approaches to dealing with armed groups in the Sahel, exploring regional conflict dynamics, including the linkage between armed groups, the exploitation of natura...