Final reporting of the Return & Reintegration project

In 2019, Delmi was granted funding by the Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund (AMIF) to improve the migration process in the area of Return for the target group of third-country nationals. For the past two years, Delmi has been working on a study of returnees' own experiences of voluntary and involuntary return, their reintegration process in the country of origin and the support structures that are offered there.

Delmi has initiated and analyzed interviews with 100 people - 60 from Afghanistan and 40 from Iraq - who either had their asylum application rejected or for other reasons decided to return from Sweden. Data were collected in 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic and the changed security situation in the Middle East. The research results can be read in Swedish and English in the report Those who were sent back: Return and reintegration of rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan and Iraq (2021:10). The policy brief has also been translated into Arabic, Kurdish, Pashto, and Dari.

Despite the pandemic and the security situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, we completed this AMIF-funded project, which we should be proud of.

André Asplund, researcher in the project and one of the report authors.

The purpose of Delmi's research is to fill knowledge gaps in the field of migration. Through research, Delmi hopes to improve the conditions for a long-term sustainable migration policy for those who cannot stay.

Picture by AMIF.

Read the study

Those who were sent back