Publication date: 04 December 2014
This policy brief, produced by the Migration Policy Centre, focuses on immigration to Europe via the Mediterranean and related issues such as smuggling, sea routes, Mare Nostrum and risks encountered by migrants. It also provides statistics and data.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: boat migrant, human smuggling, Mare Nostrum, Mediterranean, migrant death
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.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: human smuggling, human trafficking, national referral mechanism, victims of human trafficking
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.
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Main theme: Migration, Economic migration, Integration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: economic growth, international migration trend, labour market integration, labour migration
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.
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Main theme: Study § Training, Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: education policy, integration policy, migrant pupil need, Social cohesion
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.
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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: REG
Keywords: country of origin, reintegration programmes, return
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: 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: 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
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: humanitarian visa, LIBE committee, visa code
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.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: business migration, economic benefit, immigrant investor program, immigration policy, visa policy
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.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Keywords: labour market need, migrants' skills, population ageing
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: REG
Keywords: reintegration programmes, voluntary return
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.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration
Keywords: Mediterranean, smuggled migrant, migrant death
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.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: EMN bulletin
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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports
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.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Keywords: migrant entrepreneurship, migrant business, economic growth
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: 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.
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Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Keywords: nationality code
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.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: annual report, federal migration centre
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.