21 December 2020
On 15 December, EMN Belgium and the EMN Return Expert Group hosted a webinar on Alternatives to Detention. The online event focused on the current legal framework on alternatives to detention, the implementation of these alternatives in practice and the identification of emerging good practices and pilot projects.
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Main Theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: Conférence EMN
20 November 2020
The new State Secretary for Asylum and Migration, Sammy Mahdi (CD&V) presented his General Policy Paper on Asylum and Migration in Parliament on 18 November 2020.
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Main Theme: Migration
Keywords: policy paper
24 September 2020
On 16 September 2020, the Interior Committee of the Belgian House of Representatives held a parliamentary hearing on a legislative proposal concerning the prohibition of detention of minors. EMN Belgium contributed to the hearing by presenting the laws, policies and practices in other EU Member States.
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Main Theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: detention, alternatives to detention, families, unaccompanied minors
18 June 2020
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, personal interviews of applicants for international protection at the CGRS were stopped in March. They were started again in June. To improve the safety of staff and applicants, a video with practical instructions was created.
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Main Theme: International Protection
Keywords: video
27 May 2020
The EMN has recently conducted a study on "Comparative overview of national protection statuses”. A short video was created to highlight some of the key findings of this study.
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Main Theme: Regularization
Keywords: video
07 May 2020
Today EMN Belgium has launched a Twitter account to better disseminate EMN outputs.
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Main Theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: médias sociaux
07 May 2020
Border closures and quarantine rules to prevent the spreading of Covid-19 risk having a negative impact on seasonal work. To address labour shortages in the agricultural and horticultural sectors, the federal and regional governments decided to adopt a series of measures in the spring of 2020.
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Main Theme: Economic migration
Keywords: seasonal labour
27 April 2020
In 2020 EMN Belgium will continue to contribute to multiple EMN outputs on migration and asylum policy in the EU Member States. This way EMN Belgium contributes to an evidence-based migration and asylum policy in the EU and Belgium.
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Main Theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: research
12 February 2020
Voluntary returns to the countries of origin are decreasing for the third consecutive year.
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Main Theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: voluntary return
16 December 2019
On 10 December 2019, EMN Belgium organized its annual asylum and migration policy event in which recent national and EU developments in the field of international protection, legal migration and integration, and irregular migration and return were discussed.
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Main Theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: conférence annuelle du REM
06 November 2019
This report provides a broad overview of recent trends in international migration flows and migration policies in OECD countries and some non-OECD countries.
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Main Theme: Economic migration
Keywords: OECD
25 October 2019
The conference 'From Tampere 20 to Tampere 2.0: Towards a new programme (2020-2024) for EU migration and asylum policies 20 years after the Tampere conclusions?' was held in Helsinki on the 24th and the 25th of October.
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Main Theme: Cross-sectional, Integration, External Dimension, International Protection, Economic migration, Irregular Migration
Keywords: Dublin Regulation, CEAS, EMN Annual Conference
25 October 2019
On 22 October 2019, the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (VVSG) published the results of the survey conducted in the spring of 2019. The results show that especially the search for housing for beneficiaries of international protection is very problematic. The regulations state that, in principle, they must leave the Local Reception Initiative (LOI) within two months. As in the VVSG survey of 2017, half of the respondents do not consider this period to be feasible. For almost 1 in 5, finding housing within this timeframe very exceptionally the case, and only thanks to the possibility to extend the stay in the LOI twice by 1 month.
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Main Theme: Integration
Keywords: huisvesting, LOI's, discriminatie
23 October 2019
On 8 October 2019, Fedasil launched the new information platform www.fedasilinfo.be. The mobile website provides applicants for international protection (asylum seekers) in Belgium with reliable information in 12 languages, 8 of which include an audio version.
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Main Theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: information for applicants for international protection
20 June 2019
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, which is organized every year on 20th June by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Eurostat published an infographic on annual asylum data for 2018 . Eurostat also published its Asylum quarterly report. In the first quarter of 2019, the number of first-time asylum applicants slightly increased : 4% more compared to the 4th quarter of 2018.
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Main Theme: Data & Statistics, Asylum
12 June 2019
Today the English translation of the latest report on Human Trafficking and Smuggling from Myria was published. The 2018 report focuses on underage victims of trafficking and smuggling of human beings.
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Main Theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
05 April 2019
The Federal Public Service Interior has made a short video about foreign unaccompanied minors seeking international protection in Belgium.
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Main Theme: Vulnerable groups
Keywords: unaccompanied minors
15 February 2019
Myria, the Belgian Federal Migration Centre, is recruiting a policy officer to work for the Belgian Contact Point of the European Migration Network (EMN).
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Main Theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: job vacancy
06 February 2019
Voluntary returns to the countries of origin are decreasing. Among others, this is the result of the lower number of asylum applications during the past years.
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Main Theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: AVRR Sustainable Return
12 December 2018
On 12 December 2018, the Belgian contact point of the EMN organized its annual asylum and migration policy event in which recent national and EU developments in the field of international protection, legal migration and integration and irregular migration, human trafficking and return were discussed.
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Main Theme: Integration, Reception, International Protection, Return & Readmission, Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: annual EMN policy event
04 December 2018
The European Commission is presenting its Second Report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings.
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Main Theme: Irregular Migration
Keywords: human trafficking
26 October 2018
On the 26th of October 2018 the general policy note on asylum and migration of the State Secretary for Asylum and Migration was published. The policy note provides an overview of the main achievements and priorities in the field of asylum and migration.
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Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: policy note
18 October 2018
Europol launched a new report about child trafficking. It provides a comprehensive view on who the victims are and who the criminal networks are that trafficking the children in and into the EU.