Studies of the labor market effects of the ethnic repatriation waves, which are more comparable to my study, find different effects with respect to wages and employment.
How long before "send them back" becomes a line in a manifesto that suggests voluntary repatriation for the last wave of European migrants?
+ The latest in the current wave of cultural repatriation: The Denver Museum of Art has returned a 10th century Khmer statue, looted from Cambodia during civil war, to the country's capital.
In September, the Belgian Office of the Commissioner-General for Refugees and Stateless Persons announced it would no longer automatically grant subsidiary protection — a financial assistance program for refugees — to migrants from Iraq, which could explain the recent wave of voluntary repatriations and the drop in the number of asylum claims.
The forced repatriation appears to be happening in large waves this week.
Repatriation, when it occurs, will happen in waves," said Mike Ryan, chief investment strategist for UBS Wealth Management Americas, adding: "It will be a lagged effect that will occur with rebuilding efforts".
Mr. Brennan made waves last week when he advocated the forced repatriation by airplane to Indonesia of anyone not directly fleeing a country in which they faced persecution as a means of dissuading asylum seekers from using Indonesia as a transit country.
These conflicts have contributed to a new wave of demographic changes, including the exodus and repatriation of more than two million refugees, several hundred thousand orphans, and a vast number of single parent- or child-headed households.
Mr Cameron and Conservative ministers have pledged to wave that veto, and use the threat of it to secure the repatriation of powers from Brussels.My print column this week attempts to answer a simple question: can Mr Cameron deliver on those promises?
She is a repatriation specialist.
