Editorial
The research project Rückkehr-Watch (Return Watch) critically explores the encouragement of return and reintegration. It gathers journalistic background articles and political positions. Two short films and numerous stories and portraits of returnees describe the conditions surrounding promotion of return and illustrate the diversity and complexity of return and reintegration experiences. Together with experts, Rückkehr-Watch discusses the context of the return assistance trend; explains how the German programmes for return assistance are structured and implemented in key countries receiving return assistance, how stakeholders experience application and counselling for return, in which complex situations they decide to accept the offers, and which difficulties they face after their return. Experts from Syria, Germany, Iraq, Northern Iraq, Afghanistan, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, Egypt and Mali have their say.
The focus is on the experiences of returnees from Morocco, Afghanistan, Iraq and northern Iraq, Nigeria and Mali. They make it clear that the voluntary return and reintegration programmes are often not opted for based on one’s own free will, but rather out of necessity and lack of alternatives. Many returnees end up in hopeless and even life-threatening situations in their country of origin. The interviews with them show: A decision to return with the help of official programmes usually has little to do with voluntariness.
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