Corrections to “Determinants of Enforced Return: A Quantitative Analysis of the Spectrum of (In)voluntariness Among Rejected Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands”

Abstract

Sinnige, M., Cleton, L., and Leerkes, A. 2025. “Determinants of Enforced Return: A Quantitative Analysis of the Spectrum of (In)voluntariness Among Rejected Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands.” Population, Space and Place 31, no. 2, e2886. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2886.

In the first sentence of the third paragraph of Section 2.2 “Policy Factors,” a reference to “many host states” is made, whereas this should have been “migrants' countries of citizenship.” The text should have read: “Since the early 2000s, the EU has also concluded several readmission agreements and various other, nonbinding, return deals with migrants' countries of citizenship (Niemann & Zaun, 2023).”

Table 1 in Section 3 “Methodology” includes incorrect naming of our dependent variables. “Soft deportation” should be replaced by “Assisted Voluntary Return” and “Deportation” should be replaced by “Forced removal.”

In the final sentence of the third paragraph of Section 4 “Results,” “source country corruption” should have read “corruption in migrants' countries of citizenship.” The sentence should have read: “Interestingly, corruption in migrants' countries of citizenship has a significant positive effect on FR, which is in the opposite direction to what we expected.”

Table 2 in Section 4 “Results” includes incorrect column titles. “Soft deportation” should be replaced by “Assisted Voluntary Return” and “Deportation” should be replaced by “Forced removal.”

Table 2 in Section 4 “Results” includes an incorrect categorizing of our variables. “Intergovernmental policies” should be replaced by “Macro level.”

In footnotes 5 and 13, the term “deportation” appears. This should have read “forced removal.”

Additionally, a few changes were made to the published version of the article. They are as follows:

The third author's surname in reference Leerkes, Maliepaard, and van der Meer 2022 was corrected from “Meer” to “van der Meer.”

In the first sentence of Section 3 “Methodology,” identifiable information was not included post-peer review. The text has been updated to read: “The data set, previously used in a study on Assisted Voluntary Return (Leerkes et al., 2017), comprises 15,680 rejected asylum claims.”

In the third sentence of Section 3.4 “Ethics,” the university name and ethics approval number was not included post-peer review. The text has been updated to read: “The present analysis was carried out as part of an ongoing Horizon Europe research project, which received ethics approval from the Ethics Review Board of Erasmus University Rotterdam (decision number ETH2324-0063).”

In the fourth sentence of paragraph 2, Section 5 “Discussion and Conclusion,” the word “extend” was corrected to “extent.”

We apologize for these errors.