EU Exit Regimes in Practice: Sustainable Return and Reintegration in Albania An Interim Report on Albania

Admigov Paper, June 2021

This interim report of the Advancing Alternative Migration Governance project (ADMIGOV) provides a case study of the EU Exit regime’simplications for return and reintegration processes in Albania. The aim of this interim report is to assess sustainable reintegration post-Exit in Albania. Specifically, this report examines: • return migrants’ decision-making regarding the acceptance or refusal of assisted voluntary return packages; • return migrants’ experiences since their return to Albania. In this analysis we seek, in particular, to understand whether migrants who are returned to Albania via assisted voluntary return or forced removal are being sustainably reintegrated in Albania; • in what ways reintegration processes are impacted by EU Exit regimes; • the post-Exit monitoring process in Albania.