Publication date: 11 May 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published an information brochure for potential victims of human trafficking
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: victims of human trafficking
Publication date: 11 May 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published a study on the socio-economical status of regularized persons (Law of 22 December 1999)
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Main theme: Migration, Irregular Migration, Regularization
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: regularization campaign
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: 06 May 2011
Report of the Universities UG (Ghent) and ULB (Brussels) on behalf of the Belgian government
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Main theme: Study § Training
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: student migration, third-country nationals
Publication date: 05 May 2011
The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) published a new Policy Brief about the EU's 2020 strategy
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Opinion
Keywords: labour migration policy, EU Migration Policy, migration policy
Publication date: 04 May 2011
IOM published in cooperation with Fedasil the annual REAB-report 2010
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: IOM, REAB program, reintegration programmes, voluntary return
Publication date: 04 May 2011
The King Baudouin Foundation publishes a practical tool for practitioners in the re/integration of victims of human trafficking
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: anti-trafficking, reintegration program, victims of human trafficking
Publication date: 21 April 2011
How to cope with one of the most difficult public policy issue at the moment in Europe, dealing with irregular migration? On 20 April 2011, the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) published a new report on irregular migration in the UK
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Publication date: 21 April 2011
How did the economic recession affect migration flows? Did irregular migration increase? Did remittances decline? This study examines the impact of the economic crisis on both emigration and immigration flows in Europe and policy responses put in place in EU countries.
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This report describes the activities of the Immigration Office for the year 2009 regarding the entry, stay, settlement and removal of foreign nationals.
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Publication date: 11 April 2011
Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification
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Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: council directive, family migration policy
Publication date: 08 April 2011
This report – Belgian Policy Report on Asylum and Migration 2010 – gives an overview of developments and changes that have taken place in Belgium in the field of migration and asylum in the reference year.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports
Keywords: migration policy
Publication date: 04 April 2011
Revised and updated version of a comparative analysis of family migration policies in 9 European countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FR, IT, NL, UK), carried out by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development
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This Publication of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) aims at providing an analysis of the European legal framework, from offering better regulation of family reunification by Member States to protective jurisprudence, as well as Belgian law (the law of 15.12.1980) and recent developments.
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Publication date: 30 March 2011
What are the immigration processes with which compliance must be ensured for the employment of third-country highlyskilled workers in different European countries? In which country are the migration processes the fastest and the easiest to comply with? The answer is to be found in this Laga study.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: highly skilled workers, labour migration policy, labour migration temporary migration visa, labour shortages
Publication date: 30 March 2011
To what extent the Voluntary Return Programmes for foreign workers can be helpful in order to decrease unemployment pressures in a context of economic crisis? In the background of lessons provided by experience in other countries, this paper analyzes the Spanish policy in that field.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: foreign workers, Spain, voluntary return
Publication date: 30 March 2011
Is the the temporary movement of service providers, as liberalized by the WTO in the so-called mode 4 of GATS, lacking potential for managing labor migration? What about then the other migration-related agreements? This analysis is reviewing some regulation currently available in treaty law.
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Publication date: 30 March 2011
How is it being undocumented children in Britain? This study introduces the debate on children in migration and illustrates some of the tensions that the migration of children produces, both in legal and in policy terms.
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Publication date: 30 March 2011
In the context of the comprehensive US immigration reform, improved controls and dealing with unauthorized foreigners were discussed extensively in the US Senate in 2006 and 2007. But what about the future flows?
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: Immigration reform, labour shortages, Migration Advisory Commitee
Publication date: 30 March 2011
To what extent is climate change affecting migration flows? Although knowledge in that particular field remains limited, this study is paving the way for a new research area.
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Main theme: Migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: climate change, environmental migrants, forced migration
Publication date: 28 March 2011
The King Baudouin Foundation presents figures and trends on the influx of migrant spouses in Belgium and information about socio-economic profile of those concerned (2011)
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Publication date: 28 March 2011
The study, commissioned from IOM by the Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA) provides an inventory of the admission and residence procedures for unskilled and low-skilled third-country workers entering the labour markets of the 27 EU Member States.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: BEPA, low-skilled workers, unskilled workers
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At the end of the Second World War, Belgium counted officially 10 Congolese individuals in its borders. Today, about 16.000 Congolese citizens are living in the country and further 25.000 persons, born as Congolese nationals, became Belgians.
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The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published in October 2010 its Statistical and Demographic Study 2009