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A team of researchers has spoken to more than 13,000 young adults across 26 communities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East about the impact of forced returns on local development (Photo: Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI))

Forced return of migrants hurts home countries too

The EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum, approved last week by the European Parliament, provides for many more migrants to be forcibly returned to their home countries.

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Zina Weisner is a PhD researcher at the Department for Migration and Globalisation of Danube University Krems in Austria. As part of the MIGNEX (Aligning Migration Management and the Migration-Development Nexus) Project, her research focuses on the causes and consequences of migration as well as the role of development and humanitarian aid in the external dimension of EU migration governance.

 

A team of researchers has spoken to more than 13,000 young adults across 26 communities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East about the impact of forced returns on local development (Photo: Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI))

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Author Bio

Zina Weisner is a PhD researcher at the Department for Migration and Globalisation of Danube University Krems in Austria. As part of the MIGNEX (Aligning Migration Management and the Migration-Development Nexus) Project, her research focuses on the causes and consequences of migration as well as the role of development and humanitarian aid in the external dimension of EU migration governance.

 

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