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Return Migration: Policies and Practices
1.5 BEST PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED
Assessment and Evaluation
TABLE 6
REFUSALS OF ENTRY BY NATIONALITY: 2001
Nationality Number of Persons
Poland 12,029
Czech Republic 6,498
Switzerland 6,029
FR Yugoslavia 5,752
Ukraine 3,304
Turkey 2,304
Slovakia 1,600
FYR Macedonia 1,480
Italy 1,460
Lithuania 1,375
Other 9,223
Total 51,054
Source: Federal Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz, BGS –
www.bundesgrenzschutz.de).
The Conference of Interior Ministers and Senators set up a working group of State Secretaries,
which discussed and developed solutions to the problems associated with forced repatriation.
Their report was submitted in May 2000.
The following obstacles to successful forced removal were identified:
• Rejectees often are not willing to cooperate. They do not disclose their identity and origin,
hoping thus not to be removed;
Rejected asylum seekers or persons who were ordered to leave abscond;
Rejected migrants destroy their ID documents and pretend to be nationals of states which are
known to present legal or factual obstacles to enforcement of the expulsion;
Deportees refuse to cooperate by exerting physical force, so that the aircraft captain refuses to
take them on board;
Countries of origin fail to cooperate, or the procedures to obtain travel documents are lengthy;
Authorities in the countries of origin refuse to accept provisional travel documents, issued by
their Consular Offices in Germany.
The report’s recommendations included the following:
Improvement of the dialogue with relevant countries of origin at all levels;
An agreement on best practices with countries of origin with which Germany has concluded
formal readmission agreements;
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