This chart shows the number of people deported and the number of deportation operations, by year and operation type. For joint return operations (JROs), Frontex coordinates the actions of multiple member states who wish to deport people to one or more destinations. National return operations involve just one EU member state, but Frontex nevertheless plays a coordinating and financing role. Collecting return operations involve a plane and staff from the destination state travelling to the EU to pick up deportees.
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Notes:
When the same operation ID is used for multiple dates, they are counted
as different operations. Only operations taking place the same day and
sharing an ID are counted as the same operation.
The data contains the abbreviations VRD, VDO and "Humanitarian VR".
Frontex did not respond to questions on what exactly these stand for.
"Humanitarian VR" is presumably "humanitarian voluntary return," while
the VR in VRD may also stand for voluntary return. However, the precise
meaning cannot be confirmed without a statement from the agency. For
some operations, no operation type was provided. If the return operation
ID (RO-ID) starts with "VRD", "VRD" was used as operation type.