Publication date: 03 November 2014
This Inform summarizes the main findings of the corresponding EMN study aimed at analyzing Member States’ use of detention and alternatives to detention in the context of immigration policies
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: alternative to detention, detention
Publication date: 03 November 2014
Upon request by the LIBE committee, this study examines the workings of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) in order to assess the need and potential for new approaches to ensure access to protection for people seeking it in the EU
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Main theme: Asylum
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: Common European Asylum System, reception policy, refugee status determination, first generation
Publication date: 15 October 2014
Upon request by the LIBE committee, this study analyses existing EU legislation and practice on the issuing of humanitarian visas and the opportunity to lay down clear rules for common humanitarian visa schemes
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: humanitarian visa, LIBE committee, visa code
Publication date: 09 October 2014
The October Report of the Migration Policy Institute focuses on immigrant investor programs and the policymakers’ responses to immigrant investors’ increasing needs and demands, in particular visa and citizenship.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: business migration, economic benefit, immigrant investor program, immigration policy, visa policy
Publication date: 01 October 2014
The REG Directory “Connecting Return Experts across Europe” gives an overview of the programmes across Europe to support return and reintegration in third countries.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: REG
Keywords: reintegration programmes, voluntary return
Publication date: 16 September 2014
The EMN Bulletin provides policymakers and other practitioners with updates on recent migration and international protection policy developments at EU and national level. The 8th Edition provides information from May 2014 to August 2014, including (latest) relevant published statistics.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: EMN bulletin
Publication date: 11 September 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).
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Publication date: 14 August 2014
This Inform summarizes the main findings of the corresponding EMN study, which aimed at examining whether and how victims of trafficking are detected/identified in international protection and forced return procedures and further referred to specific procedures.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: detection, identification, referral, victim of trafficking
Publication date: 14 August 2014
This EMN Inform draws together examples of impacts that the EMN and its products have had in relation to policymaking and debate on issues of migration and asylum at EU and national levels.
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Publication date: 14 August 2014
This Inform summarizes the main findings of the corresponding EMN main study aimed at analyzing policies and practices regarding entitlements to social security and healthcare for third-country nationals in EU Member States.
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Publication date: 14 August 2014
This EMN Inform summarizes the key findings of the corresponding EMN study which aimed to identify good practices and mechanisms to allow for flexible and efficient reception facilities whilst maintaining the quality of reception conditions.
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Main theme: Reception
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: reception centre, reception condition, reception crisis
Publication date: 07 August 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.
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Publication date: 24 July 2014
This is the 10th 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 2013.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports
Publication date: 16 July 2014
The annual "activity report" 2013 of the Immigration Office is available.
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Main theme: Migration, Economic migration, Family reunification, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Immigration Office
Publication date: 04 July 2014
Today, the Federal Migration Centre presented its Annual Report on Migration 2013. The report highlights recent available data, provides a juridical analysis on the issues at stake and lists a number of recommandations towards the government.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: annual report, federal migration centre
Publication date: 02 July 2014
This focused study examines the use of detention and alternatives to detention in the context of immigration policies in Belgium.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: alternatives to detention, detention
Publication date: 13 June 2014
The report debunks some common myths and provides an understanding of key characteristics of migration in the context of climate change. With a focus on EU policies and legal frameworks in the area of migration and asylum, the report presents a series of policy recommendations to the EU.
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Publication date: 10 June 2014
The brochure 'Marriage and legal cohabitation in Belgium' of the Federal Migration Centre is a simple and useful tool for partners searching information as well as for people assisting them with advice.
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Publication date: 09 June 2014
The governance of integration of immigrants in EU Member States is a complex process involving actors across multiple policy areas at national, local, and supranational levels of administration.
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Publication date: 03 June 2014
The 7th edition of the EMN Bulletin provides updates on recent migration and international protection policy developments at EU and national level, including latest relevant published statistics.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: EMN bulletin
Publication date: 23 May 2014
The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) published the Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the European Union.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: CEAS, EASO annual report
Publication date: 23 May 2014
This Report synthesises information collected annually to provide a descriptive analysis of the situation in the Member States and to identify trends in relation to the Stockholm Programme.
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Publication date: 07 April 2014
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the year 2013 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 04 April 2014
The purpose of this publication is to provide practical support to Member States in the field of age assessment.