Barncat evaluated a year-long research project commissioned by the International Organisation for Migration entitled 'Leave? Remain? - Leading Factors in Voluntary Return or Remaining in Ireland'. The research was carried out by Liam Coakley of the Department of Geography at University College Cork, and sought to discover what factors determine people’s decision to stay in Ireland or to voluntarily return to their home country, in order to feed into future IOM programmes. The publication was launched in August 2011.