EU exit regimes in practice: case studies from the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Denmark, ADMIGOV Deliverable 2.2

Enforcing the exit of irregular migrants from EU Member States, and the EU as a whole, is undoubtedly one of the most politically charged and operationally contested aspects in EU migration governance. By the term exit regime we refer to all the institutions, procedures, and specific measures that are meant to ensure that irregular migrants with an order to leave an EU Member State will exit – one way or another – the sovereign territory of that particular country. In our terminology, an exit regime includes two prevalent forms of ensuring that irregular migrants leave a certain country: ‘forc... Mehr ...