Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
How States Coerce Migrants to Return: Comparative Perspectives
This course examined different policies around return migration throughout different countries that impact migrants and asylum-seekers. It explored forced and voluntary return policies and how these policies might impact practice. It looked at the differing countries involved in return migration: destination, transit, and origins countries. It examined current events, including the circumstances for Syria, and delved into the experiences of migrants.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Gerasimos Tsourapas
Professor of International Relations, University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow
Anna Triandafyllidou
Professor, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration
Toronto Metropolitan University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify forced and voluntary return policies and their ambiguities.
- Explore migrant experiences to reveal policy implementation gaps and ethical challenges.
- Explore the role of state coercion in return migration and understand the concept of "coerced return".
- Assess global dynamics of coerced return in destination, transit, and origin countries.
- Evaluate migrant rights and common human rights violations in return policies.
Syllabus
- Review the EU policy on migrant returns and readmissions – genealogy of the term and the policy
- Illustrate return pathways through the stories of migrants and asylum seekers
- Review the policies and related practices of selected countries: the UK, Germany, Turkey, Canada
- Identify gaps and violations of human rights
- Discuss necessary policy reforms
Issued on 8th October 2026
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