Publication date: 13 August 2013
This report examines the qualifications assessment process for foreign workers in regulated occupations and identifies several emerging policies and trends driven in part by industry and employers.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: qualifications, skills recognition, mobility
Publication date: 12 August 2013
This report examines the barriers that internationally mobile professionals may face, the policies that have been adopted to overcome these barriers and the lessons that governments can draw from policy experiences to date.
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Main theme: Study § Training
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: credentials, qualifications, skills recognition
Publication date: 09 August 2013
This EMN Inform provides information on the use of quotas by Member States as a measure to manage labour migration from third countries.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: labour market access, labour migration policy
Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: first quarter 2013 (Eurostat)
Publication date: 08 August 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the first quarter of 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 10 July 2013
Today the Centre for equal opportunities and opposition to racism en the "Centre de recherche en démographie et société" presented a demographic study about Turkish migration in Belgium.
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Publication date: 05 July 2013
The Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) presented its annual report for the reference year 2012.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics, International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, CGRS
Publication date: 04 July 2013
The FRA Annual Report examines fundamental rights-related developments in many fields, including asylum, immigration and integration, border control and visa policy.
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Main theme: Integration, Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: economic crisis, fundamental rights
Publication date: 03 July 2013
This report provides statistics, information on the legal framework, the asylum procedure and reception conditions for asylum seekers in Belgium.
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Main theme: Reception, International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum decisions, asylum law, asylum policy, asylum procedure
Publication date: 03 July 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.
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Main theme: External Dimension, Family reunification, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: voluntary return, development, reintegration
Publication date: 23 May 2013
This is the 9th Policy Report elaborated by the Belgian Contact Point of the EMN. It provides an overview of major developments in the field of asylum and migration in Belgium in the year 2012.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports
Publication date: 21 May 2013
This document gives victims and practitioners an overview of rights based on EU legislation.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: rights, victims of human trafficking
Publication date: 14 May 2013
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the year 2012 in the EU-27.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 15 April 2013
Based on the contributions from 24 EMN NCPs, this synthesis report provides an overview of the immigration and mobility policies allowing international students to enter into and move within the EU for the purpose of study.
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Main theme: Study § Training
Publication Type: EMN Reports & Studies
Keywords: student directive, student mobility, student route
Publication date: 27 March 2013
The migration coverage study plays a part in the media and migration programme of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations, which notably aims at stimulating a global debate about the current state of migration coverage in the media.
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Main theme: Migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: attitude towards migration, media coverage, public perception
Publication date: 14 March 2013
This third issue of the EMN Bulletin outlines recent migration and international protection policy developments at EU and national levels, including relevant statistics, from October 2012 to January 2013.
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Publication date: 12 March 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
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Main theme: Family reunification, Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: family reunification right, income requirement, obstacle to integration
Publication date: 28 February 2013
The Dublin transnational network project co-ordinated by Forum Réfugiés -Cosi in collaboration with ECRE, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and national partners published a comparative report on the Dublin application in several EU member states.
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Main theme: Reception, International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Dublin Regulation
Publication date: 28 February 2013
What are the challenges/barriers which affect the intra-EU mobility of third-country nationals? The study analyses this question as well as the EU acquis and national policies of relevance in this matter.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: intra EU mobility, mobility rights
Publication date: 21 February 2013
This Synthesis Report summarises the main findings of the EMN Focussed Study on Establishing Identity for International Protection: Challenges and Practices undertaken by EMN National Contact Points from 25 (Member) States.
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Main theme: International Protection, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: identification, identity
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This report realized on the basis of a documentary study addresses the question of the protection of unaccompanied minors from West Africa to North Africa from a transnational point of view.
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Publication date: 18 January 2013
This research considers the law, policies and practice for gender-related asylum claims in nine EU Member States.
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Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform analyzes whether there is a nexus between visa and migration policy in Member States practices, especially relating to long-stay visas.
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Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform provides an overview of existing approaches, mechanisms and measures to reduce irregular migration to the EU and Norway.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: migratory pressure, effective practice
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform summarises the main developments in 2011 in legal migration and mobility. Topics addressed include statistics, promoting legal migration channels, economic, family Reunification and integration.
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Main theme: Economic migration, Family reunification, Citizenship & Nationality, Integration
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: legal migration, mobility
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform presents the main developments that took place in 2011 with regard to international protection comprising statistics, the Common European Asylum System, intra-EU Solidarity , external dimension and unaccompanied minors.
