While significant efforts have been made over the past two decades to collect data on emigration and migrant remittances, there remains a lack of detailed annual country-level panel data on deportation corridors covering a broad range of country pairs over extended periods. As a result, few empirically grounded theories have been developed to examine the links between enforced return and political or economic factors in host and origin countries.

The DEPRISK project aims to fill this gap by compiling a country-by-country database on deportations using administrative records from host countries. This data will help uncover broader patterns and mechanisms shaping the political economy of deportation regimes in deporting countries, as well as their impacts on migrants’ countries of origin.

The data we assemble during the project are available as an interactive data application at www.deprisk.info and can be downloaded from the data repository.

The project was funded by Thyssen Foundation from September 2022 to September 2025.