Deportation of irregular migrants and rejected asylum seekers is widely known to pit host states against these migrants, but deportation also pits host states against these migrants’ origin states. Liberal European host states cannot unilaterally send migrants back to the origin state they come from.
The project identifies the norms that determine (non-)deportability and theorises the scoping conditions under which they are promoted and contested.
- Project period
- 2021 - 2024
- Project employer
- The Research Council of Norway
- Project nr.
- 10483 / NFR: 314300
- Project leader
- Erlend Paasche
- Status
- Ongoing
ISF project represented at Embassy Seminar
NORMS researcher Erlend Paasche was recently invited to the Embassy Seminar organised by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI), to present his research and engage in dialogue with key stakeholders working with return policy.
Research questions
- How do host and origin state agents involved with deportation normatively understand it?
- To which extent, how and under which conditions do these state agents engage in norm entrepreneurship to legitimise or delegitimise deportation?
- How do national norms of deportation evolve?
- To which extent and how do norms of deportation clash within the EU border agency Frontex?
Participants
Erlend Paasche
Project leader
Institute for social research
Jan-Paul Brekke
Institute for social research
Grete Brochmann
University of Oslo
Nicole Ostrand
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Oslo
Maisie Florence Fitzmaurice
Student
Universitetet i Oslo
Asnake Kefale
Forum for Social Studies
Tefera Negash
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Wil Hout
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn
PhD Fellow
Institute for social research
