The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, warns that externalised asylum and migration policies must be carefully designed to avoid serious human rights risks. His report highlights how transferring asylum, return, and border control functions to other countries can expose migrants to torture, arbitrary detention, and collective expulsions. Particular risks arise in the external processing of asylum claims, return procedures including “return hubs,” and outsourcing of border control. The Commissioner calls on states to adopt precautionary approaches, safeguard vulnerable people, and ensure transparency and accountability.

In this report (which is available in Dutch and French) Myria analyses the broader migration context. It argues against pushbacks and for more legal pathways for people in need of protection.

This paper, which is entitled 'The EU’s New Migration Partnership with Mali: Shifting towards a Risky Security-Migration-Development Nexus', seeks to understand why and how the EU has been redefining its migration strategy regarding Mali.

This publication takes stock of recent EU developments in the area of asylum, borders and external cooperation on migration.

This new policy brief offers a critical analysis of the reignited trend of externalised EU migration policies that appear to be moving towards a model of offshore processing, as used by Australia. By looking at the proposed CEAS reform, it lays out the fundamental concerns connected with the use of such a model and notes the flaws in the economic and “migration management” justifications for offshoring.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has been producing world migration reports since 2000. This year’s edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration issues.

The International Migration Report 2017 reviews the latest migration trends, assesses the demographic contribution of migration, examines the status of ratification of relevant conventions and summarizes recent developments on migration at the United Nations. 

This study by the Ethical Journalism Network and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) aims to understand the prevailing media narratives on migration in different national contexts. It looks at their strengths and shortcomings, and provides some insight into the interplay between editorial lines, political narratives, journalistic approaches and public discourse.

This report provides a broad overview of recent trends in international migration flows and migration policies in OECD countries and some non-OECD countries.

In deze nieuwe beleidsnota beschfijt Luigi Achilli van het Migration Policy Centre (MPC) de situatie van Syrische vluchtelingen bij UNHCR zijn geregistreerd in Jordanië, de Europese aanpak en de wijzigende houding van de Jordaanse overheid.

This very first edition of the IOM Brussels Country Office (CO) Year Report will give you a brief overview of activities undertaken in 2012 allowing a focus on specific areas of interest linked to the Belgian and Luxembourg migration context and more broadly to the European and global context.

deze publicatie focust op Brazilaanse migranten die in België heben verbleven en die naar Brazilië zijn teruggekeerd via het systeem van vrijwillige terugkeer. Deze thesis onderzoekt of en hoe de terugkeerders bijdragen aan de ontwikkeling van hun land van herkomst.

Dit onderzoek brengt inzicht in de verscheidenheid van transnationale activiteiten door mensen van Chinese, Congolese, Marokkaanse en Turkse origine die in België verblijven.

In deze publicatie maken Marleen Maes, Marie-Claire Foblets en Philippe De Bruycker een analyse van de externe dimensies van het EU asiel en migratiebeleid.

Als onderdeel van het project "Verbetering van immigratiesystemen in de EU en de VS, antwoorden op globale uitdagingen", handelt deze paper hoe er sinds 2005 werd afgestapt van de puur instrumentalistische benadering van ontwikkelingssamenwerking als instrument van migratiecotrole.

Brengt circulaire migratie voordelen met zich mee? Zijn er bewijzen dat migranten de circulaire migratie verkiezen boven een andere vorm? Deze nota onderzoekt de redenen achter de belangstellingsstijging voor circulaire migratie, als de voordelen en verbeteringen die voorgesteld worden in het model.