“Administrative, logistical, financial and reintegration support to rejected asylum-seekers, victims of trafficking in human beings, stranded migrants, qualified nationals and other migrants unable or unwilling to remain in the host country who volunteer to return to their countries of origin”
International Organization for Migration (IOM). (2011). Glossary of Migration, 2nd Edition. Retrieved from http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Glossary%202nd%20ed%20web.pdf (Accessed June 3, 2013).
“The objective of the Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme is to help individuals to return to their home country in an orderly and dignified way’ (IOM, 2007 in Ashutosh and Mountz, 2011: 30).
“It is difficult to identify precisely what nationalities of migrants AVRs Programme target but they seem to be country specific and often reflect the movements of the refugee populations. Here are some examples: Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) Programme to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Kosovo province (SCG) for Rejected Asylum Seekers/Irregular Migrants Currently Residing in the Canton of Vaud (Switzerland); Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Assistance for Congolese Asylum Seekers from Belgium; Assisted Voluntary Return of Afghan Asylum Seekers from Greece (under the AKTINERGIA programme); General Assisted Voluntary Return Program for Unsuccessful Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants Currently Residing in France (GARIF); Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Assistance for Congolese Asylum Seekers from the United Kingdom; and DNA Testing for Family Reunification for Families Living in Italy” (Andrijasevic and Walters, 2010: 21, Note 28).
Ahmed, Y. (2009). The Prospects of Assisted Voluntary Return Among the Sudanese in Greater Cairo. International Organization for Migration Publication. Retrieved from http://books.google.ca/books?id=6fMOerJZ_kAC&pg=PA6&dq=assisted+voluntary+return+sudanese+cairo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OPisUcOPBbin4AOdhoD4AQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA (Accessed June 3, 2013).
Andrijasevic, R. and Walters, W. (2010). The International Organization for Migration and the international government of borders. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(6), 977-999.
Ashutosh, I. and Mountz, A. (2011). Migration management for the benefit of whom? Interrogating the work of the International Organization for Migration. Citizenship Studies, 15(1), 21-38.
Black, R. and Gent, S. (2006). Sustainable Return in Post-Conflict Contexts. International Migration, 44(3), 15-38.
Blitz, B., Sales, R., and Marzano, L. (2005). Non-Voluntary Return? The Politics of Return to Afghanistan. Political Studies, 53(1), 182-200.
Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA). (2013, March 15). Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Program [Website]. Retrieved from http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/prog/avrr-arvr/ (Accessed June 3, 2013).
Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA). (2013, January 8). Fact Sheet: Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Program [Website]. Retrieved from http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/media/facts-faits/100-eng.html (Accessed June 3, 2013).
Council of Europe. (2010, June 4). Voluntary return programmes: an effective, humane and cost-effective mechanism for returning irregular migrants [Report to the Parliamentary Assembly]. Retrieved from http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/Doc/XrefViewHTML.asp?FileID=12461&Language=EN (Accessed on June 3, 2013).
Collyer, M. (2012). Deportation and the Micropolitics of Exclusion: the Rise of Removals from the UK to Sri Lanka. Geopolitics, 17(2), 276-292.
International Organization for Migration (IOM). (2008). Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR). Retrieved from http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/AVR_EN.pdf (Accessed June 3, 2013).
International Organization for Migration (IOM). (2010). Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) in the EU. Retrieved from http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/avrr_in_the_eu.pdf (Accessed June 3, 2013).
International Organization for Migration (IOM). (n.d.). Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration [Website]. Retrieved from http://www.iom.int/cms/return-assistance-migrants-governments (Accessed June 3, 2013).
Plewa, Piotr. (2010). Voluntary Return Programs: Can they Assuage the Effects of Economic Crisis? COMPAS Working Paper, 2010/75. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1814/14117 (Accessed on June 3, 2013).
Stančová, K. (2010). Assisted Voluntary Return of Irregular Migrants: Policy and Practice in the Slovak Republic. International Migration, 48 (4), 186-200.
Warner, D. (1994). Voluntary Repatriation and the Meaning of Return to Home: A Critique of Liberal Mathematics. Journal of Refugee Studies, 7(2-3), 160-174.
Webber, F. (2011). How voluntary are voluntary returns? Race & Class, 52(4), 98-107.
Andrijasevic, R. and Walters, W. (2010). The International Organization for Migration and the international government of borders. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(6), 977-999.
Ashutosh, I. and Mountz, A. (2011). Migration management for the benefit of whom? Interrogating the work of the International Organization for Migration. Citizenship Studies, 15(1), 21-38.
Other related words (may be concepts)
- Voluntary Return
- Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR)