Publication date: 04 December 2014

This policy brief, produced by the Migration Policy Centre, focuses on immigration to Europe via the Mediterranean and related issues such as smuggling, sea routes, Mare Nostrum and risks encountered by migrants. It also provides statistics and data.

Publication date: 03 December 2014

This policy brief is part of a series produced by the SIRIUS Network in collaboration with MPI Europe, which focuses on how policies at the EU level and within individual Member States can better support the education outcomes of young people with a migrant background.

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.

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).
Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: immigration history

Publication date: 31 October 2012

This publication focuses on Brazilian migrants who have resided in Belgium and who returned to Brazil through the system of voluntary return. The thesis investigates if and how these returnees become actors of development in their home region in Brazil.
Main theme: Return & Readmission, External Dimension
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: AVRR, Brazil

Publication date: 01 August 2012

The NORFACE Migration research programme published the first issue of NORFACE Migration: Moving into View, which reviews a selection of the research taking place within the programme “Migration in Europe – Social, Economic, Cultural and Policy Dynamics”.
Main theme: Migration
Publication Type: Study

Publication date: 03 May 2012

The Center for the study of democracy presents a handbook within the project “Integrating Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children in the Educational Systems of EU Member States: Evaluation and Promotion of Current Best Practices” – INTEGRACE.
Main theme: Integration, Reception, Study § Training
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: education

Publication date: 02 April 2012

Miet Lamberts, researcher at the Research Institute for Work and Society (HIVA center) of the KU Leuven offers an analyzis of the immigration data in Flanders for the year 2011. It gives a specific point of view on how the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generations of migrants take part in the Flamish society.
Main theme: Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: Immigrant integration, integration monitor

Publication date: 26 March 2012

The sociologist Christian Joppke examines the delicate balance that states face in promoting policies that are aggressive enough to further social cohesion yet restrained enough to respect immigrants’ moral autonomy.
Main theme: Integration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: identity, Multiculturalism

Publication date: 19 March 2012

The Political scientist Randall Hansen has published his study for the Transatlantic Council on Migration. He studied complementary about immigration and integration in Europe.
Main theme: Economic migration, Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: employment, Immigrant integration

Publication date: 19 March 2012

The political philosopher Will Kymlicka published his research for the Transatlantic Council on Migration. He studied what he calls the "central myths" about multiculturalist policies and provided evidence on related achievements.
Main theme: Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: migration policy, Multiculturalism

Publication date: 15 March 2012

Peter H. van der Laan, Monika Smit, Inge Busschers and Pauline Aarten have published their study for the Campbell Collaboration. It focuses on cross-border trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and prostitution.

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Johan Wets and Tom De Bruyn, researchers at the Reasearch Center HIVA of the KUL publish their study about shortages of staff in the healthcare sector in Belgium.
Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: labour shortages

Publication date: 22 February 2012

In this new publication, M. Maes, M.-C. Foblets and Ph. De Bruycker provide an analysis of the dynamic relationship of the external dimensions of EU asylum and migration policies.
Main theme: External Dimension
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: asylum law, EU Migration Policy

Publication date: 20 February 2012

Philipe Fargues, director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute of Florence, gives a view of the current difficulties immigrants face in the Gulf States.
Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Migration in Gulf States

Publication date: 25 January 2012

The survey entitled Transatlantic Trends: Immigration was conducted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. It is a comparative survey involving 5 EU countries (Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the UK) and the United States on immigration and integration topics.
Main theme: Integration, Migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: public opinion

Publication date: 09 January 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?

Publication date: 28 November 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
Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: family migration policy

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In this study, the UNIZO (Union of the Independent Entrepreneurs in Flanders) outlined a quantified image of the phenomenon of non-Belgian entrepreneurs settled in Belgium
Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: Entrepreneurs

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At the request of the Flemish Government and European Funds of integration, the University of Ghent carried out a quantitative and qualitative study for better determining the migration of the partners of the non-European nationals towards Flanders and Brussels
Main theme: Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: Immigrant integration

Publication date: 03 October 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
Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: family migration policy

Publication date: 26 August 2011

In this report a detailed overview is given of the Belgian legislation regarding citizenship.
Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Publication Type: Report

Publication date: 30 June 2011

As part of the project "Improving EU and US Immigration Systems' Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges", this Paper focuses on how since 2005, we have moved away from purely instrumentalist concern with development as a way of pursuing goals of migration control.

Publication date: 06 May 2011

In 2008, the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) and the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) organized a serial of debates on migration policy in Belgium. This report is intended as support-tool for these debates.
Main theme: Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: migration policy

Publication date: 06 May 2011

Report of the Universities UG (Ghent) and ULB (Brussels) on behalf of the Belgian government
Main theme: Study § Training
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: student migration, third-country nationals