Paying for migrants to go back home: how the EU’s Voluntary Return scheme is failing the desperate
By the time James boarded a flight from Libya to Nigeria at the end of 2018, he had survived a Mediterranean shipwreck, traveled through a half dozen African states, been shot, and spent two years being abused and tortured in Libya’s brutal detention centers. In 2020, back home in Benin City, Edo State, James has…