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Exclusive: UK "voluntary" returns – refugee coercion and NGO complicity

An IRIN investigation finds evidence the Home Office is using outside NGOs to pressure asylum seekers

The UK Home Office is accelerating its drive for “illegal” migrants and those refused asylum to return home voluntarily – a tactic publicised as more cost-effective and “humane” than forced returns. But how “voluntary” are these returns really? And how have NGOs become complicit in this strategy?

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