Publication date: 26 March 2012
The sociologist Christian Joppke examines the delicate balance that states face in promoting policies that are aggressive enough to further social cohesion yet restrained enough to respect immigrants’ moral autonomy.
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Publication date: 28 February 2012
This Council Statement results from the meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration in November 2011 in Berlin (MPI) and provides key recommendations for fostering greater cohesiveness.
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Publication date: 20 February 2012
Philipe Fargues, director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute of Florence, gives a view of the current difficulties immigrants face in the Gulf States.
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Publication date: 08 February 2012
This Eurostat publication provides an overview of asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications for the second quarter of 2011.
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Main theme: Asylum, International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, Eurostat
Publication date: 02 February 2012
This report was commissioned by the Norwegian Directoratie of Immigration (UDI) and managed by Econ Pöyry. The study provides an overview of rules and practices in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.
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Publication date: 01 February 2012
Gallup’s ongoing World Poll surveys in more than 150 countries. The Many Faces of Global Migration report is an introduction to what Gallup has learned by asking migrants and potential migrants themselves about their lives.
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Publication date: 19 January 2012
This report assesses the application of the Directive 2005/71/EC on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for more than three months for the purpose of scientific research.
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Publication date: 09 January 2012
Irregular migration is a subject of ongoing public debate in Europe. Policy makers are under pressure to reduce it and majorities often view it as a problem. Have policy interventions contributed to a decline in irregular migration? Have new hotspots of irregular entry emerged?
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Main theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: border management, detection, illegal entry
Publication date: 04 January 2012
The World Migration Report 2011: Communicating Effectively about Migration is the sixth report in IOM’s World Migration Report (WMR) series. This year’s report shines the spotlight on the issue of public perceptions of migration.
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Publication date: 01 January 2012
Every six months the Flemish Employment Service (VDAB) reports about various disadvantaged groups.
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Publication date: 22 December 2011
The report of the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) offers facts and figures on migration flows and migrant populations in Belgium up to 2009
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racsim, migration flows, Statistics
Publication date: 21 December 2011
This Eurostat-publication provides a wide range of information on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of migrants.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Eurostat, Immigrant integration, migration flows
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The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism has published its 2010 annual report on trafficking/smuggling of human beings
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Publication date: 18 October 2011
UNHCR has just released its Statistical overview of asylum applications lodged in Europe and selected
non-European countries
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum statistics
Publication date: 13 October 2011
The Norwegian 'Welfare and Migration Committee' (Brochmann Committee) issued a report on the prospects for the Norwegian welfare state in view of increasing immigration
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Main theme: Migration, Economic migration, Integration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: cost of migration, Immigrant integration, welfare
Publication date: 03 October 2011
The new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) investigates the involvement of organized criminal groups in the smuggling of migrants from West Africa towards the European Union (EU).
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: criminal groups, smuggling of migrants
Publication date: 05 September 2011
In 2009, EU Member States issued about 2.3 million new residence permits to third country nationals, i.e. to non-EU citizens, a number that represents a decline of about
0.2 million compared with 2008.
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Main theme: Economic migration, Family reunification, Study § Training, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Eurostat, residence permit
Publication date: 26 August 2011
In this report a detailed overview is given of the Belgian legislation regarding citizenship.
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Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Publication Type: Report
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How to promote the dignity of unaccompanied children, who find themselves alone, in a vulnerable situation, far from their home environment and separated from their parents?
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Publication date: 01 June 2011
This is the annual report 2010 of the Office of the Commissioner Gerneral for Refugees & Stateless Persons (CGRS)
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Main theme: Data & Statistics, International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, asylum procedure, asylum statistics
Publication date: 25 May 2011
The annual report of the Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil) shows in chronology that in 2010 the crisis of the reception capacity for asylum seekers continued
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Publication date: 11 May 2011
50 questions about the international family law: a publication of the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centrum) in collaboration with ADDE, VMC and the Insitute for the Equality of Women and Men
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Publication date: 11 May 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published a statistical report, carried out by the UCL
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Statistics, demography, asylum-seeker, refugee, stateless persons
Publication date: 11 May 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published a report about the respecting of fundamental rights of detainees of the INAD-Centre on Brussels Airport
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Main theme: International Protection, Borders & Visa
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: detention, INAD-centre
Publication date: 11 May 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published in June 2009 its Statistical and Demographic Study 2008