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Study Day: Partner Migration - Research and the Challenges for Policy

Logo 'Kruispunt Integratie-Migratie'

03/11/2011

The Flemish organisation 'Kruispunt M-I' invites for its study day on Partner Migration. The organisation will define major challenges for the migration policy on grounds of recent research

Theme:
Family Migration
Integration
Keywords:
family migration policy

Colloquium: Belgians - second-rate EU-citizens? The new Belgian law on family reunification

09/11/2011

The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (‘Centre’) organizes a colloquium on the problematic of so called ‘reverse discrimination’ concerning the new national law on family reunification.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family migration policy
Family Reunification Directive

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

Family life is a right for migrants too - how to ensure it?

Logo EU

17/11/2011

Is there a need to change the EU rules on family reunification of migrants? By publishing its Green Paper on the right to family reunification of non-EU nationals living in the EU, the European Commission launched the debate

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
News item
Keywords:
family migration policy

Conference: Family reunification under strain: restrictive vs. flexible policies - 17 November 2011

Conference Family Reunification cover

10/11/2011

The King Baudouin Foundation, the European Policy Centre and the Odysseus Academic Network are organising a Conference on Family reunification under strain: restrictive vs. flexible policies, on 17 November

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family migration policy

Training: New Legal Rules Familiy Reunification

Logo 'Foyer'

14/09/2011

The Legal Service of the Brussels based Integration Centre "Foyer" offers a training session on the new Law on Familiy Reunification, published in the Belgian Monitor on 12 September 2011

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family migration policy

Training: Reform of the Legal Rules on Family Reunification

15/09/2011

The French-speaking Belgian NGO 'Association for the Rights of Foreigners' (ADDE) offers a training concerning the new rules for familiy reunification

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
News item
Keywords:
family migration policy

Family Reunification in Belgium: giving the floor to field actors

King Boudouin Foundation

03/10/2011

The King Baudouin Foundation has organized between April 2010 to March 2011 different meetings gathering actors implicated by their personal or their professional background in the field of family reunification policies

Theme:
Family Migration
Publication type:
Thematic Studies
Keywords:
family migration policy

What is at Stake with Family Reunification in Belgium?

cover Itinera-Study

16/09/2011

The Think-Tank Itinera Institute analyses in its publication the new legal rules on family reunification in Belgium

Theme:
Family Migration
Keywords:
Family Reunification Directive
Immigrant integration
labour market

Een trainingsnamiddag over de wetshervorming van gezinshereniging

14/09/2011

Het wetsvoorstel dat in juni gestemd werd om de Wet van 15 december 1980 te vervangen, verandert ook diepgaand de huidige structuur van gezinshereniging.
Het ADDE (Association pour le Droit des Etrangers) organiseert hierover een vorming op 6 oktober 2011 in de ULB, in de Dupréel zaal.

Theme:
Gezinshereniging
Type:
Evenement
Keywords:
gezinshereniging

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

Ad Hoc Query on marriage of convenience

17/08/2011

The United Kingdom is seeing a growth in the use of ‘marriages of convenience’ as a way of obtaining the right to stay in the UK

Theme:
Family Migration
Irregular Migration
Publication type:
Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords:
marriage of convenience

Annual Report 2010, Immigration Office

Cover Annual Report 2010, Immigration Office

23/06/2011

This is the Annual Report 2010 of the Belgian Immigration Office (Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken/Office des Etrangers)

Theme:
Asylum
Migration
Economic migration
Family Migration
Citizenship & Nationality
Borders & Visa
Irregular Migration
Return & Readmission
Smuggling & Trafficking
Regularization

Ad Hoc Query on marriage of convenience

25/05/2011

Ad hoc query, requested on April 18, 2011 by the Hungarian NCP concerning marriages of convenience in the European Union. 18 responses

Theme:
Family Migration
Irregular Migration
Publication type:
Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords:
marriage of convenience

Conference: Family Reunification in EU Law (1 day)

06/05/2011

The European Immigration Lawyers Network (EILN) organises a bi-lingual conference (French/English) on familiy reunification in Europe
Where: Maison du Barreau, 2, rue de Harlay, 75001 Paris
When: 20 May 2011
Registration fee: € 200

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event

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

Council Directive 2003/86/EC (Family Reunification Directive)

Cover page Directive 2003/86/EC

11/04/2011

Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification

Theme:
Family Migration
Keywords:
council directive
family migration policy

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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