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Camille Le Coz
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Camille Le Coz

Director, MPI Europe

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Camille Le Coz is Director of MPI Europe, where she focuses on EU migration policies. Her expertise spans areas such as return and reintegration, refugee protection and development, climate mobility, and labor migration. She brings together a community of practice on voluntary return and sustainable reintegration, fostering dialogue among policymakers and practitioners from both origin and destination countries. Additionally, Ms. Le Coz has advised policymakers, development agencies, and multilateral development banks on addressing these migration challenges and frequently represents MPI Europe at public and private events.

She also teaches at Sciences Po Paris, and she serves on the board of the French NGO Désinfox Migrations.

Ms. Le Coz came to MPI Europe from Altai Consulting, a research and consulting organization, where she was a Project Director responsible for the migration practice. She was based in Kenya and Afghanistan, where she managed various studies for institutions such as the European Union, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Organization for Migration. She has conducted research in various countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe.  

She holds a dual master’s degree in international relations from Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from Sciences Po Paris. 

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Policy Briefs
October 2025
By  Bertrand Steiner, Adèle Appriou, Ravenna Sohst and Camille Le Coz
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Policy Briefs
October 2024
By  Lawrence Huang and Camille Le Coz
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Reports
November 2023
By  Samuel Davidoff-Gore and Camille Le Coz
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Policy Briefs
September 2023
By  Camille Le Coz and Ravenna Sohst
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Policy Briefs
June 2023
By  Camille Le Coz and Ravenna Sohst
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Reports
November 2022
By  Lawrence Huang, Ravenna Sohst and Camille Le Coz

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While migration once was a lower-priority topic for African governments, the last decade has seen a deepening in governance. Policymakers have integrated migration into their national development strategies and mainstreamed it across policy domains such as health and education. The actions are promising on paper, yet questions remain about the extent to which they will translate to more effective migration management.

After being stranded in Libya, migrant from Senegal returns with help from IOM
Short Reads
June 2026
By  Camille Le Coz and Ravenna Sohst
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Short Reads
September 2024
By  Hanne Beirens, Susan Fratzke and Camille Le Coz
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Short Reads
July 2024
By  Camille Le Coz and Meghan Benton
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Short Reads
December 2023
By  Hanne Beirens and Camille Le Coz
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Short Reads
March 2020
By  Kate Hooper and Camille Le Coz
Video, Audio
January 13, 2026

MPI analysts assess the immigration actions taken during President Trump's first year back in office, detail the legal state of play, and analyze the actual effects on the labor market, U.S. communities, and future immigration to the United States.

Video, Audio
January 13, 2026

Featuring a study on the role that counselling and reintegration programs can play in shaping migrants' return decisions, this webinar examines how timing of such interventions, counselling approaches, and collaboration with trusted origin-country partners can help make these programs more effective.

Video, Audio
May 6, 2025

Speakers from organizations that support returning migrants in Iraq, Somalia, and other fragile environments explore challenges in designing and delivering reintegration support in these settings and the role that reintegration programming can play in helping returnees rebuild their lives.

Expert Q&A, Audio
May 2, 2024

The Ethiopian government has pledged to increase access to education and employment for refugees, most of whom live in camps. There have been ups and downs along the way. This episode explores the key trends.

Expert Q&A, Audio
October 19, 2023

African migrants turn to the strength of kinship-based support systems in pursuit of stability as they settle in a European landscape that is sometimes made precarious by their legal status and shifting policies. This episode discusses use of the kinship networks, including to exchange or broker identity documents between migrants along the migration journey and at destination.

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Recent Activity

Short Reads
June 2026

EU policymakers are under mounting pressure to increase returns, yet the reintegration of returnees remains a politically overlooked dimension. This short read examines the fragmented landscape of assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) programs, the limits of current approaches, and how a more coherent European framework—anchored in local institutions and development partnerships—could better serve both returnees as well as origin and destination countries.

Video, Audio, Webinars
January 13, 2026

MPI analysts assess the immigration actions taken during President Trump's first year back in office, detail the legal state of play, and analyze the actual effects on the labor market, U.S. communities, and future immigration to the United States.

Video, Audio, Webinars
January 13, 2026

Featuring a study on the role that counselling and reintegration programs can play in shaping migrants' return decisions, this webinar examines how timing of such interventions, counselling approaches, and collaboration with trusted origin-country partners can help make these programs more effective.

Reports
December 2025

Policymakers across the European Union are seeking ways to incentivize third-country nationals with return orders to comply and voluntarily depart. This study examines whether and how two such measures—return counselling and reintegration assistance—can play a role in migrant decision-making, taking the Netherlands as a case study.

Policy Briefs
October 2025

Many migrant-origin countries are developing policies and institutional structures to support their returning nationals, driven by safety concerns, emergencies, and in some cases pressure from destination countries. This policy brief examines these developments and identifies opportunities to better align local services, national policies, and donor support to strengthen international cooperation on migrant returns and reintegration.

Video, Audio, Webinars
May 6, 2025

Speakers from organizations that support returning migrants in Iraq, Somalia, and other fragile environments explore challenges in designing and delivering reintegration support in these settings and the role that reintegration programming can play in helping returnees rebuild their lives.

Policy Briefs
October 2024

Climate change can affect human mobility in many different ways. Designing policies and programs that reflect local conditions and affected communities’ priorities and needs is key to effectively addressing this diversity. This issue brief examines what localized solutions look like in the climate mobility space, why they matter, and how to overcome common obstacles that can keep local actors from playing a bigger role in their development.

Short Reads
September 2024

Germany's reinstatement of border controls with its nine neighbors runs the risk of creating a chain reaction, with other EU Member States following suit. In the process, this go-it-alone approach could pose a serious threat to the Schengen free movement zone as well as put the common European asylum system at risk, as this MPI Europe commentary explains.

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