This meeting will discuss the dynamics by which migrants get stuck in low-skilled work, and the role of training and employment services in helping them progress in their occupations.

Since 13 November 2014 and until May 2015, Belgium is chairing the Committee of Ministers, the political decision making organ of the Council of Europe. Under the Belgian Presidency, migration and asylum will be part of the issues tackled.

18 October is EU Anti-Trafficking Day. To mark the Eight EU Anti trafficking Day, the European Commission has published a package on Trafficking in Human Beings and civil society organizations have launched a European campaign against human trafficking and labour exploitation.

The IOM Country Office for Belgium and Luxembourg organize an event to illustrate the positive contribution of migrants, in various domains and to highlight some concrete examples of their contributions to the host societies at the international, European, and Belgian levels.

William Lacy Swing, Director General IOM, stresses that already in 2014 over 2,200 migrants have died attempting to reach Europe via the Mediterranean Sea. That’s three times 2013’s total!

This International Symposium aims to discuss the current challenges of migration and integration in Europe, and to reignite the debate about an EU-wide strategy to improve integration policies across Member States.

The Centre for the History of Migrants (CGM) organizes an international workshop to analyze how policies and practices travel, especially between the Netherlands and Belgium as neighbouring countries with more or less similar immigration histories.

The summit took stock of progress made on Roma inclusion in the EU. It focused on three major themes: making policies inclusive for all Roma at the local level; making EU funding reach the local and regional authorities; making Roma integration a local reality.

Helga de Valk, Professor aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel, is willing to show that applying the sociological life course approach to migration and integration research may advance our understanding of immigrant settlement patterns and further develop the life course perspective.

De finale internationale conferentie van TRICUD beoogt de belangrijkste bevindingen te presenteren van het multidisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma TRICUD (2010-2014).

Op woensdag 13 november 2013 organiseert Public Policy Exchange het vierde Jaarlijkse Internationaal Symposium over de preventie van mensenhandel, te Brussel.

Vandaag, 18 oktober 2013, hebben drie internationale expert-organen m.b.t. mensenhandel de internationale gemeenschap opgeroepen om samen te werken in de strijd tegen mensenhandel.

Vandaag, 30 september, vond een interministriële conferentie plaats over de toepassing door de Lidstaten van de EU van het Internationaal Verdrag inzake de bestrijding van mensenhandel en de exploitatie van andermans prostitutie, dat binnenkort zijn 65e verjaardag viert.

From 9 to 13 September 2013, the conference will provide a forum for discussing and developing research, policy and practice on migration and integration.

De Koning Boudewijnstichting is op zoek naar jonge onderzoekers, studenten of afgestudeerden, die kunnen bijdragen tot beleidsontwikkeling rond de thema's migratie en integratie. Vier personen zullen beloond worden voor hun werk!