Migration

Annual Report on Human Trafficking, 2013 (Federal Migration Center)

Publication date: 04 December 2014

This annual report on Human Trafficking, produced by the Federal Migration Centre, provides qualitative and quantitative data on victims of human trafficking as well as judicial analysis and recommendations to the new government.

Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking

Publication Type: Report

Keywords: human smuggling, human trafficking, national referral mechanism, victims of human trafficking

International Migration Outlook 2014 (OECD)

Publication date: 03 December 2014

This flagship publication on migration analyses recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries and selected non-OECD countries.

Main theme: Migration, Economic migration, Integration

Publication Type: Report

Keywords: economic growth, international migration trend, labour market integration, labour migration

Enhancing EU Education Policy: Building a Framework to Help Young People of Migrant Background Succeed

Publication date: 03 December 2014

This policy brief is part of a series produced by the SIRIUS Network in collaboration with MPI Europe, which focuses on how policies at the EU level and within individual Member States can better support the education outcomes of young people with a migrant background.

Main theme: Study § Training, Integration

Publication Type: Study

Keywords: education policy, integration policy, migrant pupil need, Social cohesion

EMN Bulletin (August- November 2014)

Publication date: 03 December 2014

The 9th edition of the EMN Bulletin provides updates on recent migration and international protection policy developments at EU and national level, including latest relevant published statistics.

Main theme: Asylum, Migration

Publication Type: EMN bulletin

Keywords: legal migration

Practical approaches and good practices in return and reintegration to Afghanistan and Pakistan (EMN Inform)

Cover Picture EMN Inform on return and reintegration to Afghanistan and Pakistan

Publication date: 01 December 2014

This EMN Inform provides information concerning Member States’ practices on return and reintegration to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: REG

Keywords: country of origin, reintegration programmes, return

The use of detention and alternatives to detention in the context of immigration policies in Belgium and in the EU (EMN)

Cover report EMN Study use of detention and alternatives to detention

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

Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission

Publication Type: Thematic Studies

Keywords: alternative to detention, detention

The use of detention and alternatives to detention in the context of immigration policies (EMN Inform)

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

Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission

Publication Type: EMN inform

Keywords: alternative to detention, detention

Humanitarian visas: option or obligation? A study for the LIBE committee

Publication date: 15 October 2014

Upon request by the LIBE committee, this study analyses existing EU legislation and practice on the issuing of humanitarian visas and the opportunity to lay down clear rules for common humanitarian visa schemes

Main theme: Asylum, Migration

Publication Type: Study

Keywords: humanitarian visa, LIBE committee, visa code

Selling Visas and Citizenship: Policy Questions from the Global Boom in Investor Immigration (MPI)

Publication date: 09 October 2014

The October Report of the Migration Policy Institute focuses on immigrant investor programs and the policymakers’ responses to immigrant investors’ increasing needs and demands, in particular visa and citizenship.

Main theme: Economic migration

Publication Type: Report

Keywords: business migration, economic benefit, immigrant investor program, immigration policy, visa policy

Matching Economic Migration with Labour Market Needs (OECD, European Union)

Publication date: 02 October 2014

This publication provides new evidence on the role that international migration has played in Europe and in selected other OECD countries over the past decade in terms of labour force; educational attainment; and occupational changes.

Main theme: Economic migration

Keywords: labour market need, migrants' skills, population ageing

EMN Return Experts Group (REG) Directory

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.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: REG

Keywords: reintegration programmes, voluntary return

Fatal journeys: Tracking Lives Lost During Migration (IOM)

Publication date: 30 September 2014

The report, compiled under IOM’s Missing Migrants Project, indicates Europe is the world’s most dangerous destination for “irregular” migration, costing the lives of over 3,000 migrants this year.

Main theme: Irregular Migration

Keywords: Mediterranean, smuggled migrant, migrant death

EMN Bulletin (developments from May to August 2014)

Publication date: 16 September 2014

The EMN Bulletin provides policymakers and other practitioners with updates on recent migration and international protection policy developments at EU and national level. The 8th Edition provides information from May 2014 to August 2014, including (latest) relevant published statistics.

Main theme: Asylum, Migration

Publication Type: EMN bulletin

(Un)desirable immigration? Belgian family reunification policy until 1980

Publication date: 11 September 2014

This book is describing the origins of the Belgian family reunification policy and its evolution until 1980. It is the first historical monograph about family reunification in Belgium and it has received the price of the Fetullah Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies (GCIS).

Main theme: Family reunification

Publication Type: Study

Keywords: immigration history

Impacts of the European Migration Network (EMN Inform)

Publication date: 14 August 2014

This EMN Inform draws together examples of impacts that the EMN and its products have had in relation to policymaking and debate on issues of migration and asylum at EU and national levels.

Main theme: Asylum, Migration

Publication Type: EMN inform

Keywords: impact analysis

Migrant access to social security and healthcare: policies and practice (EMN Inform)

First page of EMN Inform on Migrant Access to Social Security

Publication date: 14 August 2014

This Inform summarizes the main findings of the corresponding EMN main study aimed at analyzing policies and practices regarding entitlements to social security and healthcare for third-country nationals in EU Member States.

Main theme: Migration

Publication Type: EMN inform

Keywords: healthcare, social security

Frontex publishes first Annual Report of the Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights

Publication date: 07 August 2014

The key task of the Consultative Forum is to provide advice to Frontex on fundamental rights issues. The Annual Report gives an overview of the activities undertaken by the Consultative Forum in 2013 and contains the main recommendations made to Frontex and its Management Board.

Main theme: Borders & Visa

Publication Type: Report

Keywords: Frontex, human rights

Policy Report 2013 on Asylum and Migration in Belgium (EMN)

Publication date: 24 July 2014

This is the 10th 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 2013.

Main theme: Asylum, Migration

Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports

Open for Business: Migrant Entrepreneurship in OECD countries

Cover page of OECD publication Open for Business

Publication date: 23 July 2014

This publication sheds light on migrants’ contribution to entrepreneurial activity and employment creation in their host countries and it discusses policy options to foster the development and success of migrant businesses.

Main theme: Economic migration

Keywords: migrant entrepreneurship, migrant business, economic growth

Annual Report 2013 (Immigration Office)

Publication date: 16 July 2014

The annual "activity report" 2013 of the Immigration Office is available.

Main theme: Migration, Economic migration, Family reunification, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission

Publication Type: Report

Keywords: Immigration Office

Access to the Belgian Nationality (Federal Migration Centre)

Publication date: 15 July 2014

The Federal Migration Centre made a brochure with information on access to the Belgian Nationality after the new Nationality Code came into force on 1 January 2013. This is the fourth edition of this brochure.

Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality

Keywords: nationality code

Annual Report on Migration 2013 (Federal Migration Centre)

Publication date: 04 July 2014

Today, the Federal Migration Centre presented its Annual Report on Migration 2013. The report highlights recent available data, provides a juridical analysis on the issues at stake and lists a number of recommandations towards the government.