Publication date: 01 February 2016
In the context of the current crisis, the Western Balkans is a busy migrant route. It is necessary to work more closely with this region and to come up with a coordinated approach to the crisis.
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Main theme: External Dimension, Asylum, Migration
Keywords: migration crisis, refugee crisis, Western Balkans
Publication date: 29 January 2016
The 13th edition of the EMN Bulletin provides up-to-date information on recent migration and international protection policy developments at EU and national level, including latest relevant published statistics.
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Publication date: 28 January 2016
22 (Member) States provided information on their practices regarding illegally working migrants, more precisely on whether this is considered a criminal offence and what possible sanctions they face. This query was launched by the British National Contact Point.
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Main theme: Economic migration, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: illegal work, irregularly staying third-country national
Publication date: 25 January 2016
The Guidelines – developed under the EMN Return Expert Group (REG) - propose a common methodology that Member States can follow to monitor and evaluate AVVR programmes.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN Reports & Studies
Keywords: monitoring, evaluation, AVRR, AVR
Publication date: 21 January 2016
The report contains administrative and statistical data on migration and asylum, integration, social cohesion and the social position and participation of foreign nationals and people of foreign origin in Flanders, within a Belgian and European framework.
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Main theme: Migration, Integration, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: integration monitor
Publication date: 07 January 2016
This is the first action plan specifically devoted to the fight against smuggling in human beings in Belgium. It includes concrete measures to be implemented in the coming years to address evolving challenges linked to human smuggling.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: Action Plan against Smuggling in Human Beings
Publication date: 05 January 2016
The Plan for 2015-2020 sets out concrete actions to prevent and counter migrant smuggling. Actions include setting up a list of suspicious vessels, enhancing exchange of information with financial institutions and cooperating with internet service providers and social media.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: Action Plan on Migrant Smuggling, investigation, point of contact on migrant smuggling, prevention
Publication date: 05 January 2016
This EMN Policy Brief presents key data on the irregular movements of people across the EU external borders and within the European Union itself, whether as asylum-seekers or as migrants, over the past few years and including the first nine months of 2015.
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Main theme: Asylum, Irregular Migration, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, Mediterranean, migratory route, secondary movement
Publication date: 05 January 2016
This EMN Inform shows how movements of asylum-seekers, migrants and displaced persons to the EU have changed and evolved in 2015.
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Main theme: Asylum, Irregular Migration, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: Mediterranean, migration route, secondary movement
Publication date: 16 December 2015
Upon request by the LIBE committee, this research paper reviews the social and economic context of EU international labour migration policy, the status of relevant EU legislation and the available policy options.
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Publication date: 16 December 2015
This paper by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights seeks to provide guidance to policy makers and practitioners on the use of measures for asylum seekers and people in return procedures that do not unnecessarily deprive them of their right to liberty.
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: alternative to detention
Publication date: 17 November 2015
This study provides information on the scale, characteristics, trends and patterns of migrant smuggling to the EU and analyzes the institutional arrangements, legal framework, policies and activities at international, EU and national level tackling this phenomenon.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Publication date: 16 November 2015
This EMN Inform summarises the main findings of the EMN Study "Determining labour shortages and the need for labour migration from third countries".
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: labour migration, labour shortage
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: 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: Informs
Keywords: voluntary return
Publication date: 03 November 2015
The handbook offers responses to fundamental questions on migration, such as those concerned with its root causes and possible responses in terms of good policies and practices, as well as the challenges.
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: human rights, migration governance, parliamentarian
Publication date: 29 October 2015
This new EASO country of origin information (COI) report focuses on the modus operandi of the trafficking of Nigerian women to Europe for the purpose of prostitution and the situation of victims returning to Nigeria.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: Nigeria, sexual exploitation
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: 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.
