Governing irregular and return migration in the 2020s : European challenges and Asian pacific perspectives

Abstract

Most research on irregular migration in Europe has so far developed with a Eurocentric focus not sufficiently engaging with parallel policy and research developments in other world regions. The publication of McAuliffe and Koser's (2017) A Long Way to Go, Irregular Migration Patterns, Processes, Drivers and Decision-Making and Taylor and Lee's (2017) Mobilities of Return: Pacific Perspectives on the Asia Pacific regional challenges of irregular migration and complex mobility offer a welcome opportunity to reflect on related research findings and common challenges for migration and asylum governance in Europe and the Asia Pacific.