The Latest Asylum Trends 2025 provides an annual overview of asylum activity in EU+ countries, covering asylum applications (per capita), the main nationalities of applicants, the top receiving countries, recognition rates, pending cases and the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection following the war in Ukraine. It also reviews policy developments in the EU+ and provides a 2026 outlook, examining, inter alia, geopolitical uncertainty and latent displacement risks.

In het jaarverslag biedt het Commissariaat-generaal voor de Vluchtelingen en de Staatlozen (CGVS) een uitgebreid overzicht van de asielcijfers voor 2024, samen met belangrijke interne ontwikkelingen en initiatieven gericht op het verbeteren van efficiëntie en besluitvorming. Het rapport behandelt ook aankomende procedurele wijzigingen, internationale samenwerking, nieuwe bevoegdheden met betrekking tot staatloosheid en kwetsbare verzoekers, personeels- en organisatorische verbeteringen, en verduidelijkingen over operationele en budgettaire middelen.

This MPI Europe study examines the challenges sponsorship programs have faced in recruiting, retaining, and diversifying the sponsors for refugees in community sponsorship programs, as well as strategies that programs could and in some cases already use to overcome these obstacles. 

This comparative report provides an overview of the use of digital tools and remote working methods in asylum processes in 23 European countries. It questions the risks and benefits of such use and highlights several fundamental guarantees and procedural safeguards which must continue to apply to ensure that they do not infringe the existing CEAS framework.

This MPI Europe report explores the various forms of predeparture orientation programs offered by resettlement countries. It focuses on important design questions and identifies a set of features shared by effective programs.

In dit jaarlijkse rapport analyseert Myria de migratie-actualiteit en toetst daarbij het beleid en de praktijk aan het respect voor de grondrechten. Myria trekt daarbij conclusies en formuleert beleidsaanbevelingen.

This report reviews data relating to migrants' access to information on their rights in 19 reception and detention facilities of 8 EU Member States, including Belgium. It includes recommendations on how to make information provision effective.

This report points to the need for reform in the European asylum system. There is a need for a more balanced distribution of asylum seekers between the Member States and more uniform decision-making on asylum within the EU. The authors argue that a person seeking asylum should have the same chance of being granted asylum irrespective of the country in which the application is made. 

This publication is based on social media research conducted by a small UNHCR team. Between March and December 2016, they issued weekly monitoring reports which have now been compiled into this synopsis.

This briefing provides a short overview of major developments relating to asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection accros the countries covered by the Asylum Information Database (AIDA).

We weten verrassend weinig over hoe NGO's en advocaten onderzoek doen in het kader van asielaanvragen. Om deze kloof te dichten, heeft Asylos 20 advocaten en medewerkers van ngo's in België, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Griekenland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk geïnterviewd om de uitdagingen van het onderzoek naar bewijs, evenals de mogelijkheden voor het verbeteren van het onderzoeksproces te begrijpen.

In 2016 is het aantal asielaanvragen in België meer dan gehalveerd ten opzichte van 2015. Maar het aantal beslissingen dat door het Commissariaat-generaal voor de Vluchtelingen en de Staatlozen (CGVS) werd genomen, was nog nooit zo hoog.

This report presents an overview of the shifting of economic activity to developing countries and examines whether this shift has led to an increase in international migration towards developing countries.

In this paper, UNHCR sets out a vision for achieving a pragmatic and common approach to responding to refugees and migrants. The proposals can facilitate the development, over the long term, of EU-wide arrangements to address and respond to movements effectively.

This MPI report provides an overview of the barriers to the successful labor market integration of refugees and asylum seekers across all skills levels, and analyzes the targeted support initiatives and structural policy levers available to overcome them.

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 this study, Myria, the Federal Migration Centre, closely looks at the reaction of Europe regarding the unusual situation of refugees in 2015 and 2016 and more particularly from a fundamental rights point of view.

This study, published by the "Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum" (Dutch Ministry for Security and Justice), focuses on asylum recognition rates in the EU/EFTA area.

What exchange of information on the application of exclusion 1F takes place currently ? Is it desirable and feasible to enhance international information exchange in this matter? This study answers these questions.

This report examines private sponsorship programmes to permit private individuals, groups, corporations and other entities to sponsor individual refugees for resettlement and accept financial responsibility for them for a period of time.

This Report makes the case of the complexity of the drivers favoring displacements as refugees, making protection based on a strict definition of persecution increasingly problematic and challenging to implement.

This policy brief of the Migration Policy Insitute (MPI) addresses the underlying mechanisms of policymaking around migration and asylum at the EU level and identifies areas in which the EU institutions must reform to have the desired effect on the ground.

Het Europese Asielondersteuningsbureau (EASO) heeft zijn jaarverslag voorgesteld.

Deze Eurostatpublicatie (data in focus) geeft een overzicht van de asielaanvragen en de beslissingen in asielzoeken voor het jaar 2013 in de EU.

Deze publicatie van Eurostat geeft een overzicht van de asielaanvragen en beslissingen in asieldossiers in de Europese Unie. De cijfers hebben betrekking op het derde kwartaal van 2013, beslissingen van beroepsinstanties worden buiten beschouwing gelaten.