What is the role of NGOs in the assisted voluntary returns of asylum seekers and irregular migrants?

16 May 2014 - CPC members, Derek McGhee and Claire Bennett, presented their work on the role of NGOs in asylum seekers and irregular migrant voluntary returns at a COMPAS (Centre on Migration, Policy & Society) Breakfast Briefing.

Along with Professor Bridget Anderson from COMPAS, they presented work on the different programmes whereby asylum seekers, irregular migrants and foreign national prisoners can be returned to their countries of origin (or a third country) through assisted voluntary return or facilitated return programmes, administered by NGOs in the UK. The work explores the relationship between those NGOs who hold the contract for administering these programmes and UKBA and the Home Office.

Read a blog post by Derek McGhee and Claire Bennett on the Borer Criminologies website 'Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR): Government Funding and the Refugee Sector'

Through its Breakfast Briefing series, COMPAS seeks to highlight and discuss topical, cutting edge research on migration and migration-related issues.

Further information is available on the COMPAS website, with a podcast of the briefing due to be available shortly.

Posted 11/02/2014 11:24