Today we celebrated the Final Conference and the opening of the Ethnographic Exhibition of the EXIT Project at the Universitat de Barcelona. The event featured a keynote lecture and Q&A session with Professor Akhil Gupta, followed by roundtables with project researchers and representatives from the 17 research sites that took part in the project. Their […]
The EXIT project is nearing its conclusion. Over the past three years, we have worked collectively on a critical analysis of the concept of left‑behindness to better understand and characterise territorial inequalities across Europe. It has been an intense process, enriched by research, debate, and collaboration among all the teams involved. Today, the project partners […]
We are pleased to invite you to the conference “Left-behindness Contested: Place, Power and Pathways to Change”, which will take place at the University of Barcelona on February 13, 2026. The full program will be shared soon. The conference will offer simultaneous translation services. Registration is now open, and we encourage you to sign up if you […]
The newspaper El Triangle has published a piece about the results of MORE. You can read it here: https://www.eltriangle.eu/2025/05/24/un-estudi-europeu-desacredita-la-detencio-i-deportacio-de-persones-en-situacio-irregular/
Brussels, March 26 – The MORE research project, coordinated by the University of Barcelona and funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Program, will present its preliminary results at the European Parliament. MORE explores return and readmission policies, analysing the logic that legitimises them as a tool for migration governance and their consequences on the […]
Read the full statement of the four research projects response to the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation establishing a common system for returns We, the undersigned EU-funded research projects, issue this joint statement to clarify our position on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation Establishing a Common System for Returns (the “proposal”). The proposal published on the […]
The project MORE: Motivations, Experiences And Consequences Of Returns And Readmissions Policy: Revealing And Developing Effective Alternatives celebrates its first year with a partners meeting in Ljubljana (Slovienia). During the meeting partners presented the preliminary comparative results of WP1, which deepens into the construction of political and policy discourses around returns and readmission, and […]
This week, the PEARL consortium concluded its two-year effort with the Final Project Event in Paris. Dedicated to developing the PEARL e-course and a Toolbox for professionals, on December 11th, we proudly unveiled the project outcomes and launched the online participatory space along with the inaugural issue of the PEARL magazine. The comprehensive e-course targets […]
Being “left-behind”? The relevance of inequalities and their territorial dimension has become increasingly prominent in academic debate and political discourse. This issue gained particular attention after the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. It is in this context that, at the end of 2022, the project EXIT: Exploring sustainable strategies to counteract […]
MORE: Motivations, experiences and consequences of returns and readmissions policy: revealing and developing effective alternatives The returns and readmissions policies constitute an essential part of the European Union and its member states’ response to irregular migration. These policies have led to a reduction in pathways to safeguard the rights of migrant populations across Europe. The […]