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On 22 October 2019, the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (VVSG) published the results of the survey conducted in the spring of 2019. The results show that especially the search for housing for beneficiaries of international protection is very problematic. The regulations state that, in principle, they must leave the Local Reception Initiative (LOI) within two months. As in the VVSG survey of 2017, half of the respondents do not consider this period to be feasible. For almost 1 in 5, finding housing within this timeframe very exceptionally the case, and only thanks to the possibility to extend the stay in the LOI twice by 1 month.
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Thème principal: Integration
Mots-clés: huisvesting, LOI's, discriminatie
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On 8 October 2019, Fedasil launched the new information platform www.fedasilinfo.be. The mobile website provides applicants for international protection (asylum seekers) in Belgium with reliable information in 12 languages, 8 of which include an audio version.
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Thème principal: Cross-sectional
Mots-clés: information for applicants for international protection
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Today the English translation of the latest report on Human Trafficking and Smuggling from Myria was published. The 2018 report focuses on underage victims of trafficking and smuggling of human beings.
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Thème principal: Smuggling & Trafficking
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The Federal Public Service Interior has made a short video about foreign unaccompanied minors seeking international protection in Belgium.
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Thème principal: Vulnerable groups
Mots-clés: unaccompanied minors
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Each year, the Odysseus Network organizes a Summer School in EU immigration and asylum law and policy. The courses tackle the most recent legislative, jurisprudential and political developments in the field at EU level.
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Thème principal: Cross-sectional
Mots-clés: immigration law
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Myria, le Centre Federal Migration, recrute un policy officer pour travailler pour le Point de Contact Belge du Réseau Européen des Migrations (REM).
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Thème principal: Transversaux
Mots-clés: job vacancy
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Voluntary returns to the countries of origin are decreasing. Among others, this is the result of the lower number of asylum applications during the past years.
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Thème principal: Return & Readmission
Mots-clés: AVRR Sustainable Return
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Le 18 janvier, Myria organise, en partenariat avec l’Académie Royale des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, la Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten et Le Soir une rencontre d'envergure sur la migration, qui se tiendra au Palais des Académies, à Bruxelles. Le long d’une journée des thèmes comme la protection internationale et la migration économique seront abordés à travers des exposés académiques.
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Thème principal: Protection internationale, Migration économique
Mots-clés: conference
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Le 12 décembre 2018, le point de contact belge du REM a organisé son événement annuel concernant la politique en matière d'asile et de migration. Les discussions ont porté sur les développements récents au niveau national et de l'UE dans le domaine de la protection internationale, de la migration légale et de l'intégration ainsi que sur les développements récents en matière de migration clandestine, de traite des êtres humains et de politique de retour.
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Thème principal: Intégration, Accueil, Protection internationale, Migration irrégulière, Retour & Réadmission, Trafic & Traite d'êtres humains
Mots-clés: conférence annuelle du REM
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Le 26 octobre 2018, le secrétaire d'État à l'Asile et la Migration a publié le note de Politique Générale Asile et Migration 2018. La note donne un aperçu des principales réalisations dans le domaine de l'asile et la migration.
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Thème principal: Asile, Migration
Mots-clés: policy note
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On 10 September, the Belgian Minister of Security and the Interior and the State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration presented a 9-point action plan on the fight against irregular transit migration.
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Thème principal: Irregular Migration
Mots-clés: transit migration, action plan
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As of 11 August, irregularly staying families with minor children can be detained with a view to removal in family housing on the grounds of the closed detention centre 127bis.
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Thème principal: Irregular Migration
Mots-clés: detention, child detention
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Today, 10 families with a humanitarian visa arrived in Zaventem. They will apply for international protection once in Belgium. They will be hosted in Christian communities, in cooperation with Caritas, during the first year.
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Thème principal: International Protection
Mots-clés: humanitarian visa
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The results of the third sociomonitoring report, published in December 2017, will be presented by the Federal Public Service Employment and Unia, in order to better understand the situation of persons on the labour market according to their origin.
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Thème principal: Integration
Mots-clés: socioeconomic monitoring, labour market
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The Royal Decree of 23 April 2018 introduced changes with regards to extending or ending the stay of international students. It details – inter alia – in which cases an order to leave the territory can be issued to a student when he/she extends his/her studies in an excessive manner considering the results.
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Thème principal: Study § Training
Mots-clés: student
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On the occasion of the publication of its annual report "Migration in rights and numbers: family life in jeopardy", Myria organizes a conference in the Belgian Senate on June 26.
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Thème principal: Cross-sectional
Mots-clés: family reunification right
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Following the adoption of the Cooperation Agreement on the Single Permit Procedure on 2 February 2018, different legislative texts have been adopted at the federal and regional levels in March 2018 to approve this Cooperation Agreement.
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Thème principal: Economic migration
Mots-clés: single permit directive
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Le gouvernement a approuvé le 24 mars 2018 un nouveau plan de réduction de capacité pour les demandeurs de protection internationale. Le réseau d’accueil actuel compte 23.815 places. Ce nombre devrait être réduit à 16.629 places en 2019, dont 10.044 places collectives et 6.585 places individuelles. Avec ce nouveau plan, le réseau retrouvera ainsi sa capacité d’avant la crise.
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Thème principal: Accueil
Mots-clés: reception place
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Les retours volontaires vers les pays d’origine sont en baisse. En cause notamment le nombre moins élevé de demandes d’asile ces deux dernières années.
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Thème principal: Retour & Réadmission
Mots-clés: voluntary return
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En février, Fedasil, l'Agence fédérale pour l'accueil des demandeurs d'asile, a signé un accord-cadre avec Enabel (www.enabel.be), l’Agence belge du développement (anciennement Coopération technique belge).
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Thème principal: Retour & Réadmission
Mots-clés: coopération au développement
Law on reform of Belgium's Immigration Act published
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Today, March 12, 2018 the Law of 21 November 2017 (adopted in the Parliament on Nov. 9) modifying the Immigration Act was published in the Belgian Official Gazette and will come into force on March 22, 2018.
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Thème principal: International Protection
Mots-clés: asylum law
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From 21 until 23 February 2018, the Belgian State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration, Theo Francken, visited Guinea in order to discuss the questions of – inter alia - irregular migration and return.