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[Publication] Making it work. AVRR programmes and Ghanaian returnees

• Making it work. AVRR programmes and Ghanaian returnees
• External researchers have criticised existing self-monitoring measures of national and European AVRR programmes for neglecting reintegration and focusing on means to ensure that rejected asylum seekers and undocumented migrants leave the national territory, regardless of what happens next.This Policy Brief addresses this point by presenting recommendations that are based on the result of fieldwork conducted in Ghana between January and February 2020. The authors in particular recomm...

[Publication] Making it work. AVRR programmes and Ghanaian returnees

• Making it work. AVRR programmes and Ghanaian returnees
• External researchers have criticised existing self-monitoring measures of national and European AVRR programmes for neglecting reintegration and focusing on means to ensure that rejected asylum seekers and undocumented migrants leave the national territory, regardless of what happens next.This Policy Brief addresses this point by presenting recommendations that are based on the result of fieldwork conducted in Ghana between January and February 2020. The authors in particular recomm...

[PDF Document] Ghana_Manual_amended_final.pdf   (1.05 MB)

[PDF Document] Ghana_Manual_amended_final.pdf   (1.05 MB)

[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...

[Publication] On the Same Wavelength? Differing Geopolitical Positionalities and Voluntary Return and Reintegration in Ghana

• On the Same Wavelength? Differing Geopolitical Positionalities and Voluntary Return and Reintegration in Ghana
• This paper explores the range of experiences of “voluntary” return to Ghana, based on the different positionalities of migrants set against migration and return regimes and broader socio-economic inequalities. The cases illustrate how geopolitical relations shape migrants’ mobilities, highlighting the unequal relations between different actors in the countries of origin and destination; primarily these are the migrants, their relatives, and communities of origin. Conflicting interes...

[Publication] On the Same Wavelength? Differing Geopolitical Positionalities and Voluntary Return and Reintegration in Ghana

• On the Same Wavelength? Differing Geopolitical Positionalities and Voluntary Return and Reintegration in Ghana
• This paper explores the range of experiences of “voluntary” return to Ghana, based on the different positionalities of migrants set against migration and return regimes and broader socio-economic inequalities. The cases illustrate how geopolitical relations shape migrants’ mobilities, highlighting the unequal relations between different actors in the countries of origin and destination; primarily these are the migrants, their relatives, and communities of origin. Conflicting interes...