Publication date: 03 November 2015
This EMN Inform summarises the main findings of the EMN Study "Dissemination of Information on Voluntary Return: how to reach irregular migrants not in contact with the authorities".
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: voluntary return
Publication date: 03 November 2015
This study aims to identify the conditions that influence the decisions by refugees in protracted displacement regarding return to their home country: when, why and by whom are decisions on return and other coping strategies made?
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: displacement, durable solution, sustainable return
Publication date: 28 October 2015
The report highlights the close connection between human mobility and urban development, by showing how migration and migrants are shaping cities and how the life of migrants is shaped by cities, their people, organizations and rules.
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Publication date: 26 October 2015
This report by the International Organization for Migration draws on data from the Gallup World Poll to provide an insight into public attitudes towards immigration worldwide.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics, Migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: attitude towards migration, IOM
Publication date: 21 October 2015
In its annual report on trafficking and smuggling of human beings, Myria provides qualitative and quantitative data on these phenomena as well as a judicial analysis and recommendations. The 2015 report focuses in particular on victims of early or forced marriages and on victims of loverboys.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: human smuggling, human trafficking, national rapporteur on trafficking in human beings, victims of human trafficking
Publication date: 12 October 2015
The 12th 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: Migration, Asylum
Publication Type: EMN bulletin
Publication date: 09 October 2015
This publication analyses recent development in migration movements and policies in OECD countries and some non member countries as well as the evolution of recent labour market outcomes of immigrants in OECD countries.
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Publication date: 17 September 2015
This EMN study analyses and compares the different approaches used by Member States to ensure irregular migrants are informed of options for return.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies
Keywords: voluntary return
Publication date: 07 September 2015
This report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights aims to estimate the economic cost of providing timely access to healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation, compared with providing treatment only in emergency cases.
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Publication date: 04 September 2015
In this report, Myria provides an annual overview of the demographics and of the situation of foreigners in terms of fundamental rights in Belgium. Myria also provides recommendations for the belgian public authorities.
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Publication date: 19 August 2015
This report focuses on Belgium’s admission policy for third country nationals, more particularly regarding family reunification, labour migration, and student migration. It also compares Belgium’s conditions of entry with those of other EU Member States.
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Publication date: 17 August 2015
On 27 July 2015, UNHCR and Fedasil launched the report “All Born on 01/01” which examines the situation of Afghan asylum seekers residing in collective reception centres in Belgium.
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Main theme: Reception
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: UNHCR, reception centre, Fedasil, Afghanistan
Publication date: 28 July 2015
The EMN Annual Report outlines the most significant political and legislative developments in the field of migration and asylum in 2014 at the EU level and within (Member) States.
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Main theme: Migration, Asylum
Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports
Publication date: 28 July 2015
The 11th 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: 15 July 2015
This policy report provides an overview of the major developments in the field of migration and asylum in Belgium in the year 2014.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports
Publication date: 09 July 2015
The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) published its annual report on the situation of asylum in the European Union.
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Publication date: 03 July 2015
This joint publication by the OECD and the European Commission presents a comparison across all EU and OECD countries of the integration of immigrants and their children.
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Publication date: 30 June 2015
This study examines the interconnection between labour shortages in the Member States and labour migration policies from third countries to Member States.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: labour migration, labour shortage
Publication date: 04 June 2015
This Report presents the main findings of the 2014 EMN Study "Policies, practices and data on unaccompanied minors (UAMs)". The study aims to update the findings of the 2008-2009 EMN study on UAMs.
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Main theme: Reception, International Protection, Vulnerable groups, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: unaccompanied minors
Publication date: 06 May 2015
This EMN Inform summarises the main findings of the EMN Study Admitting third-country nationals for business purposes focusing on the admission for business purposes of non-EU investors, non-EU business-owners and other business persons.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: business person, immigrant business owner, immigrant investor
Publication date: 05 May 2015
This Policy Brief from the Institute for European Studies examines whether Belgium’s complex federal state structure can help explain the country’s poor performance regarding labour market participation of people with an immigrant background.
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Publication date: 08 April 2015
This Report makes the case of the complexity of the drivers favoring displacements as refugees, making protection based on a strict definition of persecution increasingly problematic and challenging to implement.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: displacement, forced migrant, protection gap, humanitarian crisis
Publication date: 01 April 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.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: entry refusal, illegal border crossing, irregular entry, irregular stay, obligation to leave the territory
Publication date: 26 March 2015
The UNHCR Asylum Trends 2014 summarizes patterns and trends in the number of individual asylum claims submitted in 38 European States and 6 selected non-European countries during 2014. It reveals a sharp increase in the number of asylum-seekers registered during 2014.
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The Development of EU Policy on Immigration and Asylum: Rethinking Coordination and Leadership (MPI)
Publication date: 19 March 2015
This policy brief of the Migration Policy Insitute (MPI) addresses the underlying mechanisms of policymaking around migration and asylum at the EU level and identifies areas in which the EU institutions must reform to have the desired effect on the ground.