This report—‘Where to next?’—details the country-level policy changes that have affected Eritrean mobility dynamics over the past decade. Through interviews with displaced Eritreans and key informants (KIs), this research seeks to understand how the dynamics of Eritrean mobility have adjusted to externalisation policies, shrinking spaces of refuge, and compounding regional crises.

A second report – ‘Shifting protection experiences of displaced Eritreans’ – will follow and will analyse the key trends in how Eritreans have experienced and responded to these changes. Together, these reports examine how political, security, and policy changes across Africa, the Middle East, and Europe have systematically reduced Eritreans’ access to safe refuge, despite their continued displacement in significant numbers, while also undermining existing support systems.