Publication date: 13 August 2013
This report examines the qualifications assessment process for foreign workers in regulated occupations and identifies several emerging policies and trends driven in part by industry and employers.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: qualifications, skills recognition, mobility
Publication date: 12 August 2013
This report examines the barriers that internationally mobile professionals may face, the policies that have been adopted to overcome these barriers and the lessons that governments can draw from policy experiences to date.
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Main theme: Study § Training
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: credentials, qualifications, skills recognition
Publication date: 09 August 2013
This EMN Inform provides information on the use of quotas by Member States as a measure to manage labour migration from third countries.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: labour market access, labour migration policy
Publication date: 10 July 2013
Today the Centre for equal opportunities and opposition to racism en the "Centre de recherche en démographie et société" presented a demographic study about Turkish migration in Belgium.
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Publication date: 04 July 2013
Produced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the FRA, the Handbook provides an accessible guide to the various European standards relevant to asylum, borders and immigration.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: european law, fundamental rights
Publication date: 04 July 2013
The FRA Annual Report examines fundamental rights-related developments in many fields, including asylum, immigration and integration, border control and visa policy.
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Main theme: Integration, Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: economic crisis, fundamental rights
Publication date: 03 July 2013
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.
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Main theme: External Dimension, Family reunification, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: voluntary return, development, reintegration
Publication date: 25 June 2013
The International Migration Outlook 2013 says that migration into OECD countries rose by 2% in 2011 from the previous year, to reach almost 4 million. Recent data suggest a similar increase in 2012.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Integration
Keywords: economic crisis, entrepreneurship, OECD, trend, unemployment
Publication date: 24 June 2013
This is the sixth annual report that the Centre for Equal Opportunities and the Fight against Racism publishes on migration. The report highlights relevant available data and provides a juridical analysis on the issues at stake.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: annual report
Publication date: 24 June 2013
The 4th Annual Report, that was releases on 17 June 2013, analyses the 2012 and early 2013 developments in the areas of immigration and asylum and calls for a more coherent EU response. The Report is inter alia based on EMN annual reports 2012.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: annual report
Publication date: 14 June 2013
The annual "activity report" 2012 of the Immigration Office is available.
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Publication date: 23 May 2013
This is the 9th Policy Report elaborated by the Belgian Contact Point of the EMN. It provides an overview of major developments in the field of asylum and migration in Belgium in the year 2012.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports
Publication date: 21 May 2013
This document gives victims and practitioners an overview of rights based on EU legislation.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: rights, victims of human trafficking
Publication date: 22 April 2013
According to Frontex, the number of people trying to get into the EU dropped by around a half in 2012. Some 73.000 people were detected in 2012, down from around 114.000 in 2011.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration
Keywords: Frontex, illegal border crossing
Publication date: 15 April 2013
Based on the contributions from 24 EMN NCPs, this synthesis report provides an overview of the immigration and mobility policies allowing international students to enter into and move within the EU for the purpose of study.
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Main theme: Study § Training
Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies
Keywords: student directive, student mobility, student route
Publication date: 27 March 2013
The migration coverage study plays a part in the media and migration programme of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations, which notably aims at stimulating a global debate about the current state of migration coverage in the media.
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Main theme: Migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: attitude towards migration, media coverage, public perception
Publication date: 27 March 2013
This paper maps the marital choices of persons with a migratory background in Belgium, with a focus on populations of Moroccan and Turkish origin.
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Main theme: Migration, Family reunification
Keywords: first generation, marital choice, second generation
Publication date: 25 March 2013
In this background note, the ACP Observatory on Migration assesses return migration in a South-South context, proposing return definitions, typologies and trends as well as a summary of current policies and best practices.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: south-south migration, reintegration, sustainable return, return migrant
Publication date: 18 March 2013
The report explores how movements have responded to key changes such as EU enlargements, the end of restrictions on workers of new Member States and the economic crisis. The repot also examines the motivations for migration and impacts on labour markets.
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: free movement, intra-EU mobility
Publication date: 14 March 2013
This third issue of the EMN Bulletin outlines recent migration and international protection policy developments at EU and national levels, including relevant statistics, from October 2012 to January 2013.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: EMN bulletin
Publication date: 12 March 2013
This study, coordinated by the Immigrant Council of Ireland and supported by the European Integration Fund, answers the question to what extent certain family reunification policies hinder or promote reunification with TCN family members and also their integration
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Main theme: Family reunification, Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: family reunification right, income requirement, obstacle to integration
Publication date: 11 March 2013
Frontex Programme of Work 2013 outlines Frontex's areas of possible activities for the year in question, focusing inter alia on the further development of the EUROSUR system, the operational support to Greece, implementation measures and new structures.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: border control, EUROSUR, external border
Publication date: 07 March 2013
This Policy Brief, which launches a flagship series for Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Europe, offers a first analysis of the changed empirical and policy environment in which the European Union (EU) finds itself.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: European Agenda, migration strategy, whole-of-government policymaking
Publication date: 28 February 2013
What are the challenges/barriers which affect the intra-EU mobility of third-country nationals? The study analyses this question as well as the EU acquis and national policies of relevance in this matter.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: intra EU mobility, mobility rights
Publication date: 22 February 2013
This EP study aims to analyze the contribution and influence of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union on asylum and immigration.