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The EU's external borders: Key trends and developments (EU Parliament)

23/03/2023

This briefing discusses key recent trends and figures and provides an overview of EU policy developments relating to the management of the EU's external borders.

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
external border
border management
border security

Artificial intelligence at EU borders (EU Parliament)

01/07/2021

This paper provides an overview of EU initiatives on developing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to improve border control and border security.

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
artificial intelligence
border control
security

Migration in rights and numbers 2018 (Myria)

26/06/2018

In this annual report Myria analyses the current migration and tests policy and practice against respect for fundamental rights. Myria draws conclusions and formulates policy recommandations. 

Theme:
Regularization
Data & Statistics
International Protection
Economic migration
Family Migration
Citizenship & Nationality
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
fundamental rights

EU asylum, borders and external cooperation on migration (EPRS)

29/05/2018

This publication takes stock of recent EU developments in the area of asylum, borders and external cooperation on migration.

Theme:
External Dimension
Asylum
Borders & Visa
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
border management
ECAS
external coorperation

Intelligence Community Joint Report 2016 (AFIC)

06/04/2017

The Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community (AFIC) Joint Report 2016 analyses the irregular migratory movements affecting AFIC countries and EU Member States, cross-border criminality and provides an overview of the main regional security threats affecting the countries in the community. The report also presents a picture of the smuggling networks in Africa.

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
human smuggling
border control
border security
cross-border crime

Frontex Annual Risk Analysis (ARA) 2015

01/04/2015

The Frontex Annual Risk Analysis (ARA) presents a European summary of trends and developments along the external borders of the Member States of the EU.

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Irregular Migration
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
entry refusal
illegal border crossing
irregular entry
irregular stay
obligation to leave the territory

(Un)desirable immigration? Belgian family reunification policy until 1980

11/09/2014

This book is describing the origins of the Belgian family reunification policy and its evolution until 1980. It is the first historical monograph about family reunification in Belgium and it has received the price of the Fetullah Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies (GCIS).

Theme:
Family Migration
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
immigration history

Frontex publishes first Annual Report of the Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights

07/08/2014

The key task of the Consultative Forum is to provide advice to Frontex on fundamental rights issues. The Annual Report gives an overview of the activities undertaken by the Consultative Forum in 2013 and contains the main recommendations made to Frontex and its Management Board.

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
Frontex
human rights

Annual Report 2013 (Immigration Office)

Activiteitenrapport DVZ 2013

16/07/2014

The annual "activity report" 2013 of the Immigration Office is available.

Theme:
Migration
Economic migration
Family Migration
Borders & Visa
Irregular Migration
Return & Readmission
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
Immigration Office

Year Report 2012 (IOM Brussels)

03/07/2013

This very first edition of the IOM Brussels Country Office (CO) Year Report will give you a brief overview of activities undertaken in 2012 allowing a focus on specific areas of interest linked to the Belgian and Luxembourg migration context and more broadly to the European and global context.

Theme:
External Dimension
Family Migration
Return & Readmission
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
voluntary return
development
reintegration

Family Reunification: a Barrier or Facilitator of Integration? A Comparative Study

Cover page of the study

12/03/2013

This study, coordinated by the Immigrant Council of Ireland and supported by the European Integration Fund, answers the question to what extent certain family reunification policies hinder or promote reunification with TCN family members and also their integration

Theme:
Family Migration
Integration
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
family reunification right
income requirement
obstacle to integration

Annual Report 2011 (Immigration Department)

cover report

06/06/2012

Since June 4, 2012 the annual report 2011 of the Immigration Department is available

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
Immigration Department

Marriages of convenience: A comparative study

02/02/2012

This report was commissioned by the Norwegian Directoratie of Immigration (UDI) and managed by Econ Pöyry. The study provides an overview of rules and practices in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Theme:
Family Migration
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
marriages of convenience

Irregular Migration in Europe

09/01/2012

Irregular migration is a subject of ongoing public debate in Europe. Policy makers are under pressure to reduce it and majorities often view it as a problem. Have policy interventions contributed to a decline in irregular migration? Have new hotspots of irregular entry emerged?

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Irregular Migration
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
border management
detection
illegal entry

Family reunification under strain: restrictive vs. flexible policies

Cover Family Reunification

28/11/2011

The King Baudouin Foundation, the European Policy Centre and the Odysseus Academic Network (ULB) have organised a Conference on Family reunification under strain: restrictive vs. flexible policies, on last 17 November

Theme:
Family Migration
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
family migration policy

Eurostat Statistics in Focus: Residence permits issued to non-EU citizens

cover eurostat report statistics in focus

05/09/2011

In 2009, EU Member States issued about 2.3 million new residence permits to third country nationals, i.e. to non-EU citizens, a number that represents a decline of about
0.2 million compared with 2008.

Theme:
Economic migration
Family Migration
Student Migration
Data & Statistics
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
Eurostat
residence permit

INAD-Centre and the Fundamental Rights of Foreigners (Centre)

Cover page report

11/05/2011

The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published a report about the respecting of fundamental rights of detainees of the INAD-Centre on Brussels Airport

Theme:
International Protection
Borders & Visa
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
detention
INAD-centre

Annual Report 'Migration' 2010 (Centre)

Cover Annual Report Migration 2010

11/05/2011

The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published its fourth annual report 'Migration'. The Centre pleads for the third year in a row for a sustainable migration policy in Belgium.

Theme:
Asylum
Migration
Family Migration
Citizenship & Nationality
Irregular Migration
Return & Readmission
Regularization
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
annual report
migration policy

Annual Report of the Immigration Office 2009

picture front annual report

19/04/2011

This report describes the activities of the Immigration Office for the year 2009 regarding the entry, stay, settlement and removal of foreign nationals.

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
annual report

Family Reunification at the Crossroad between European and Belgian Law

Cover page study

30/03/2011

This Publication of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) aims at providing an analysis of the European legal framework, from offering better regulation of family reunification by Member States to protective jurisprudence, as well as Belgian law (the law of 15.12.1980) and recent developments.

Theme:
Family Migration
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
KBF

Family Reunification in Belgium: Data Beyond the Myth

Cover page report

28/03/2011

The King Baudouin Foundation presents figures and trends on the influx of migrant spouses in Belgium and information about socio-economic profile of those concerned (2011)

Theme:
Family Migration
Publication type:
Study
Keywords:
KBF

Family Reunification (EMN)

Cover page study

12/01/2011

This EMN Synthesis Report aims to summarise and compare, within a European perspective, the findings from nine National Contact Points (Austria, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Sweden, Netherlands and the United Kingdom) of the European Migration Network (EMN), on family reunification.

Theme:
Family Migration
Publication type:
Report
Keywords:
asylum outcomes
circulaire
family migration policy
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