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: 07 March 2013
21 Member States provide updated information on their policies & practices with regard to granting asylum seekers' access to the labour market.
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Main theme: Integration, International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: labour market access, labour market priority, work permit
Publication date: 01 March 2013
In an attempt to gain a greater understanding of the situation facing stateless people in Belgium, UNHCR undertook this interdisciplinary research project which examines socio-demographic and legal aspects of statelessness.
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Main theme: Statelessness
Keywords: stateless persons, UNHCR
Publication date: 08 February 2013
This study examines the question of the integration of resettled refugees in EU Member States, by analysing the EU policy framework for resettlement and integration, national practices, and how they could be enhanced based on global and EU guidelines and recommendations.
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Main theme: Integration, International Protection
Keywords: resettlement
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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: 17 January 2013
This compilation of responses to a French ad hoc query provides information on the removal of unaccompanied minors in the EU Member States.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: age assessment, family tracing, forced return, unaccompanied minors, voluntary return
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform provides a short overview of the main developments that took place in the EU in 2011 in response to increasing migratory pressure and specifically in relation to the six strategic priority areas of the EU Action on Migratory Pressure.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission, External Dimension
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: border management, migration management, mobility partnership, readmission agreement
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform provides an overview of the main developments that took place in 2011 within the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM) objective of maximising the development impact of migration and mobility.
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Main theme: External Dimension
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: diaspora, Global Approach on Migration and Mobility, remittances
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.
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Main theme: Asylum, Vulnerable groups, External Dimension
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: CEAS, resettlement, solidarity, unaccompanied minors
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: 13 December 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the third quarter of 2012 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 11 December 2012
The Court’s audit examined whether the EIF and ERF of the SOLID programme contribute effectively to the integration of third-country nationals. The conclusions and recommendations are listed in the report.
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: European Integration Fund, European Refugee Fund
Publication date: 07 December 2012
The edition provides a summary of IOM's regional strategies and presents IOM's responses and funding needs according to key thematic areas which all aim to enhance migration's positive impact on development.
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Main theme: Migration, External Dimension
Keywords: human developpement, high-level dialogue en migration and development
Publication date: 15 November 2012
This study of 2012 gives an overview of how migration and asylum policy is organised in Belgium. The study is an update from a study from 2008-2009.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: institutional framework
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.
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Publication date: 25 October 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the second quarter of 2012.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 17 October 2012
The report presents data inter alia relating to asylum applications, top-ten nationalities of asylum applicants and top-40 countries of origin by main asylum regions. The data covers the first half of 2012 in comparison to the first half of 2011.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: asylum trend, registration, source country
Publication date: 11 October 2012
This paper: "Women and and Girls fleeing conflict: Gender and the interpretation and application of the 1951 refugee convention" was commissioned in te context of a project on Developing Guidelines for the protection of people fleeing violence and conflict accross borders.
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Main theme: International Protection, Vulnerable groups
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: conflict, gender
Publication date: 07 September 2012
2011 stands out not only for the migration dynamics that have flowed into, out of and within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, but also for the unprecedented social movements that have transformed the political culture. IOM addresses challenges and oppportunites experienced in 2011.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: MENA region, migration management, assistance, AVRR, crisis
Publication date: 08 August 2012
This publication from the King Baudouin Foundation, reviews 22 projects building bridges between elderly migrants and existing services. Based on such experiences, tracks are identified to further involve elderly migrants in the society.
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Main theme: Migration, Integration, Vulnerable groups
Keywords: assistance, health care, senior migrant
Publication date: 08 August 2012
Nearly two-third of the foreigners living in EU Member States are citizens of countries outside the EU-27.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: citizenship, country of birth, non-EU national
Publication date: 08 August 2012
This paper provides a statistical assessment of migration before and after the uprisings in the Southern Mediterranean and reviews European and Arab state policies regarding migration. It also encourages the factoring of the outcomes of the Arab Spring within migration policies.
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Main theme: Migration, Data & Statistics
Keywords: migration policy, refugee crisis, Mediterranean region, democracy
Publication date: 03 August 2012
This study provides an insight into the variety of transnational practices developed by people of Chinese, Congolese, Moroccan and Turkish origin residing in Belgium.
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Main theme: Integration, External Dimension
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: link with country of origin, transnationalism, assimilation, diaspora, development
Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: first quarter 2012 (Eurostat)
Publication date: 02 August 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the first quarter of 2012.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 27 July 2012
Asylum Aid published a study on "Gender Related Asylum Claims in Europe". The study is a Comparative Analysis of Law, Policies and Practice Focusing on Women in Nine EU Member States.