Publication date: 11 December 2014
This Inform summarizes the main findings of the corresponding EMN study aimed at analyzing Member States’ use of entry bans and readmission agreements as the EU main policy measures to implement effective return policies
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: entry ban, forced return, readmission agreement, return directive
Publication date: 11 December 2014
This focused study presents an analysis of (Member) States’ use of entry bans and readmission agreements and also identify good practices in this field, including possible synergies in the implementation of return and reintegration measures.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: entry ban, forced return, readmission agreement, return directive
Publication date: 01 December 2014
This EMN Inform provides information concerning Member States’ practices on return and reintegration to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: country of origin, reintegration programmes, return
Publication date: 03 November 2014
This focused study presents an analysis of (Member) States use of detention and alternatives to detention in the context of immigration policies and identifies similarities, differences and good practices in this field
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: alternative to detention, detention
Publication date: 03 November 2014
This Inform summarizes the main findings of the corresponding EMN study aimed at analyzing Member States’ use of detention and alternatives to detention in the context of immigration policies
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: alternative to detention, detention
Publication date: 01 October 2014
The REG Directory “Connecting Return Experts across Europe” gives an overview of the programmes across Europe to support return and reintegration in third countries.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies
Keywords: reintegration programmes, voluntary return
Publication date: 16 July 2014
The annual "activity report" 2013 of the Immigration Office is available.
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Main theme: Migration, Economic migration, Family reunification, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Immigration Office
Publication date: 02 July 2014
The Belgian Federal Migration Centre published today a report on the Belgian return policy after the transposition of the EU-Return Directive.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: entry ban, fundamental rights, return directive
Publication date: 02 July 2014
This focused study examines the use of detention and alternatives to detention in the context of immigration policies in Belgium.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: alternatives to detention, detention
Publication date: 19 November 2013
This EMN Inform provides an overview of current aspects of return in EU Schengen Member States and Norway, including statistics.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: forced return, return directive, voluntary return
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: 14 June 2013
The annual "activity report" 2012 of the Immigration Office is available.
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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: 21 February 2013
This Synthesis Report summarises the main findings of the EMN Focussed Study on Establishing Identity for International Protection: Challenges and Practices undertaken by EMN National Contact Points from 25 (Member) States.
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Main theme: International Protection, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: identification, identity
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform provides a short overview of the main developments that took place in the EU in 2011 in response to increasing migratory pressure and specifically in relation to the six strategic priority areas of the EU Action on Migratory Pressure.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission, External Dimension
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: border management, migration management, mobility partnership, readmission agreement
Publication date: 31 October 2012
This publication focuses on Brazilian migrants who have resided in Belgium and who
returned to Brazil through the system of voluntary return. The thesis investigates if and how
these returnees become actors of development in their home region in Brazil.
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Publication date: 25 September 2012
In this national contribution to the EMN focussed study, the Belgian Contact Point describes the issue of establishing identity of applicants for international protection and for the return of rejected asylum applicants
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Main theme: International Protection, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: identification, identity
Publication date: 22 August 2012
The Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) 2011 Annual Report outlines IOM’s work carried out during 2011 in the areas of AVRR and `Post-Arrival and Reintegration Assistance` (PARA).
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Publication date: 21 August 2012
The REAB Annual Report 2011 gives an overview of developments and latest trends regarding stakeholders, assistance and approaches addressing the return and reintegration of migrants. It offers a basis for further recommendations on AVRR and return management, more particularly in Belgium.
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The annual report for 2011 Fedasil on developments in the field of voluntary return provides insight into the voluntary return programs, and a summary of the developments regarding the additional reintegration support as well as future prospects.
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Publication date: 29 February 2012
The Belgian Federal Agency for Reception of Asylum Seekers presents the statistics of voluntary returns performed from Belgium in 2011.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission, Data & Statistics
Keywords: migration statistics, voluntary return
Publication date: 15 February 2012
The study generates a checklist which aims to assist Member States in developing their processes for considering the return of children informed by national good practices.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Return & Readmission
Keywords: Directive retour
Publication date: 23 June 2011
This is the Annual Report 2010 of the Belgian Immigration Office (Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken/Office des Etrangers)
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Publication date: 11 May 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published its fourth annual report 'Migration'. The Centre pleads for the third year in a row for a sustainable migration policy in Belgium.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Family reunification, Citizenship & Nationality, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission, Regularization
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: annual report, migration policy
Publication date: 04 May 2011
IOM published in cooperation with Fedasil the annual REAB-report 2010