This EMN Inform analyses and reports on Member States’ policies and practices in accomplishing outreach activities and providing information to third-country nationals on their return options, following the adoption of the EU Return Directive in 2008.
It is the third Inform in a series of three on return counselling produced by the European Migration Network (EMN), which are the result of a proposal by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to the EMN to engage in research focusing on practices related to outreach, counselling and information provision in return and reintegration processes.
Read first Inform: Policies and practices on return counselling for migrants in EU Member States and Norway: EMN Inform
Read second Inform: Policies and practices for the training and support of return counsellors in their role to provide migrants with timely, unbiased and reliable information on return: EMN Inform