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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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups
Trefwoorden: unaccompanied minors
15 februari 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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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: job vacancy
06 februari 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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Hoofdthema: Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: AVRR Sustainable Return
12 december 2018
Op 12 december 2018 organiseerde het Belgisch Contactpunt van het Europees Migratienetwerk (EMN) zijn jaarlijks beleidsevenement rond asiel en migratie. Recente nationale en Europese ontwikkelingen op het vlak van internationale bescherming, legale migratie en integratie kwamen aan bod, alsook de recente evoluties aangaande irreguliere migratie, mensenhandel en terugkeer.
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Hoofdthema: Integratie, Opvang, Internationale bescherming, Terugkeer & Readmissie, Mensensmokkel & Mensenhandel
Trefwoorden: jaarlijkse EMN conferentie
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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Hoofdthema: Irregular Migration
Trefwoorden: human trafficking
19 november 2018
Op 26 oktober 2018 werd de algmeene beleidsnota asiel en migratie van de Staatssecretaris voor Asiel en Migratie gepubliceerd. De beleidsnota brengt een overzicht van de belangrijkste verwezenlijkingen en beleidsprioriteiten op het vlak van asiel en migratie.
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Hoofdthema: Asiel, Migratie
Trefwoorden: policy note
18 oktober 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.
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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups, Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: child victim of trafficking
29 september 2018
De intergouvernementele conferentie die het Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration zal aannemen, heeft plaats op 10 en 11 december 2018 in Marrakech, Marokko.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectionaal, Asiel, Migratie
Trefwoorden: United Nations
26 september 2018
On 10 September, the Belgian Minister of Security and the Interior and the State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration presented a 9-point action plan on the fight against irregular transit migration.
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Hoofdthema: Irregular Migration
Trefwoorden: transit migration, action plan
12 september 2018
In his State of the Union, President Jean-Claude Juncker presented proposals to ensure full EU solidarity on migration and better protection of Europe's external borders. The Commission is proposing to reinforce the European Border and Coast Guard and the EU's Agency for Asylum and is proposing a targeted review of the Return Directive.
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Hoofdthema: External Dimension, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: return directive, State of the Union, EUAA, EBCG
05 september 2018
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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Hoofdthema: Economic migration
Trefwoorden: migration flows
11 augustus 2018
As of 11 August, irregularly staying families with minor children can be detained with a view to removal in family housing on the grounds of the closed detention centre 127bis.
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Hoofdthema: Irregular Migration
Trefwoorden: detention, child detention
24 juli 2018
Today, the Commission is expanding on the concept of controlled centres as well as short-term measures that could be taken to improve the processing of migrants being disembarked in the EU, and giving a first outline of the possible way forward for the establishment of regional disembarkation arrangements with third countries.
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Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: controlled centre, regional disembarkation arrangement
17 juli 2018
Today, the State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration and his Tunisian counterpart signed an agreement which focuses on cooperation regarding migration and return.
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Hoofdthema: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: Tunisia, bilateral agreements
20 juni 2018
The EASO Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the European Union 2017 provides a comprehensive overview of developments at European level and at the level of national asylum systems. Based on a wide range of sources, the Report looks into main statistical trends and analyses changes in EU+ countries as regards their legislation, policies, practices, as well as national case law.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum
Trefwoorden: EASO, Common European Asylum System
07 juni 2018
Today, 10 families with a humanitarian visa arrived in Zaventem. They will apply for international protection once in Belgium. They will be hosted in Christian communities, in cooperation with Caritas, during the first year.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: humanitarian visa
01 juni 2018
On the 31st of May and 1st of June, the Bulgarian Contact Point of the EMN - in the framework of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council - organized the EMN Annual Conference. The conference was dedicated to challenges and success factors in managing migration flows.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: migration management, EMN Annual Conference
27 mei 2018
The Royal Decree of 23 April 2018 introduced changes with regards to extending or ending the stay of international students. It details – inter alia – in which cases an order to leave the territory can be issued to a student when he/she extends his/her studies in an excessive manner considering the results.
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Hoofdthema: Study § Training
Trefwoorden: student
16 mei 2018
In this report, the Commission is reporting on progress made under the European Agenda on Migration and the Commission's roadmap from December 2017, and is setting out further key actions to be taken.
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Hoofdthema: Migration
Trefwoorden: European Agenda on Migration
16 mei 2018
Eurostat published a statistical analysis on the number of unaccompanied minors who applied for international protection in 2017. the 31,400 applications represent an important decrease compared to previous years.
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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups, International Protection
Trefwoorden: unaccompanied minors
02 mei 2018
In 2018 viert het Europees Migratienetwerk (EMN) zijn tiende verjaardag. Ter gelegenheid hiervan houdt EMN op 15 mei een conferentie in Brussel.
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Hoofdthema: Integratie, Regularisatie, Staatloosheid, Kwetsbare groepen, Externe Dimensie, Statistieken, Ad hoc vragen, Asiel, Opvang, Internationale bescherming, Migratie, Economische migratie, Gezinshereniging en -vorming, Studie en vorming, Burgerschap & Nationaliteit, Grenscontrole & Visa, Irreguliere migratie, Terugkeer & Readmissie, Mensensmokkel & Mensenhandel
Trefwoorden: EMN conferentie
27 april 2018
Commissioner Avramopoulos has congratulated the EMN on it's approaching 10th anniversary in a speech.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: European Commission
12 april 2018
In a judgment handed down today, the EU Court of Justice responded to a Dutch prejudicial question on family reunification of (unaccompanied minor) refugees. Following the reasoning of the Court, an unaccompanied minor who attains the age of majority during the asylum procedure retains its right to family reunification.