BIRMM member Laure Deschuyteneer was recently featured in Sociaal.net together with Soline Ballet (UGent) in an article reflecting on the realities of “voluntary return” in Belgian migration policy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with social workers, return counsellors, and migrants, the piece explores the tensions between support, control, and the shrinking space for meaningful choice within return trajectories.
Read the full article here (in Dutch).