Return migration governance: MPG’s partner project FAiR receives EU funding
FAiR, a project in which MPG is a partner, has received funding from Horizon EU, an EU research and innovation funding programme.
The objective of FAiR is to strengthen EU return migration governance by addressing the legitimacy deficits in policies on return and alternatives to return.
FAiR complements dominant rational choice perspectives by systematically assessing the importance of norms, frames and shared meanings for intergovernmental cooperation on return.
In partnership with 10 other international stakeholders, FAiR gathers data from 5 non-EU+ countries (Georgia, Iraq, Niger, Nigeria, Turkey) and 5 EU+ states (Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Switzerland).
MPG’s role in this project is to develop and improve measurements of Europe’s return policies through a Migration Return Policy Index (MIREX) and pilot it in 10 different countries.
Additionally, FAiR contributions consist of:
- Developing econometric models to reduce measurement bias in Eurostat return data
- Analysing the effects of policy and non-policy drivers of enforced return
- Conducting a large survey experiment in 10 EU+ countries on public support for alternatives to return policies
- Improving guidelines for the human rights monitoring of enforced return
- Establishing a negotiation and implementation game that will help international actors to reach an agreement on return and readmission.
About the Migration Policy Group (MPG)
MPG is an independent think-and-do-tank based in Brussels. MPG’s purpose is rooted in its ability to inspire networks to provide evidence-based projects, research and campaigns in the areas of integration, migration and anti-discrimination.