Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform provides an overview of the main developments that took place in 2011 within the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM) objective of maximising the development impact of migration and mobility.
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Main theme: External Dimension
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: diaspora, Global Approach on Migration and Mobility, remittances
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform presents the main developments that took place in 2011 with regard to international protection comprising statistics, the Common European Asylum System, intra-EU Solidarity , external dimension and unaccompanied minors.
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Main theme: Asylum, Vulnerable groups, External Dimension
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: CEAS, resettlement, solidarity, unaccompanied minors
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform summarises the main developments in 2011 in legal migration and mobility. Topics addressed include statistics, promoting legal migration channels, economic, family Reunification and integration.
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Main theme: Economic migration, Family reunification, Citizenship & Nationality, Integration
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: legal migration, mobility
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform provides an overview of existing approaches, mechanisms and measures to reduce irregular migration to the EU and Norway.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: migratory pressure, effective practice
Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform analyzes whether there is a nexus between visa and migration policy in Member States practices, especially relating to long-stay visas.
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Publication date: 02 January 2013
On the basis of a field study, The King Baudouin Foundation examined in more detail the marriage migration from Emirdag to Brussels with a view to identify profiles, aspirations and motivations of the migrants involved.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: marriage migration, Emirdag
Publication date: 13 December 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the third quarter of 2012 in the EU.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 12 December 2012
This 59-page report identifies three major protection gaps for migrant women who experience domestic violence in Belgium.
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Main theme: International Protection
Keywords: migrant woman, domestic violence, protection gap
Publication date: 11 December 2012
The Court’s audit examined whether the EIF and ERF of the SOLID programme contribute effectively to the integration of third-country nationals. The conclusions and recommendations are listed in the report.
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: European Integration Fund, European Refugee Fund
Publication date: 23 November 2012
21 Member States have responded to an ad hoc query on the provision and organisation of a legal service in advance of the first instance interview or during the first instance procedure.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: legal aid for asylum seekers
Publication date: 15 November 2012
This study of 2012 gives an overview of how migration and asylum policy is organised in Belgium. The study is an update from a study from 2008-2009.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: institutional framework
Publication date: 31 October 2012
This synthesis report summarises the main findings of the national reports for the EMN study on practical measures to reduce irregular migration preformed by EMN national contact points from 22 member states.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Publication date: 26 October 2012
This Synthesis Report summarises the main findings of the National Reports for the EMN Study on Visa Policy as Migration Channel undertaken by EMN National Contact Points from 21 Member States.
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Publication date: 25 October 2012
This Eurostat publication (data in focus) provides an overview of asylum applications and first instance decisions for the second quarter of 2012.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
Publication date: 19 October 2012
This report contains EU, national and related developments in migration policy published in the period June to September 2012, as well as key statistics, plus related EMN outputs and developments that have occurred in this period.
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Publication date: 10 October 2012
20 Member States have responded to an ad hoc query on the existence of citizenship tests in order to obtain citizenship, what these citizenship tests are composed of and which assessment criteria are applied.
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Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: acquisition of citizenship, citizenship test
Publication date: 09 October 2012
One week before the European Anti Trafficking Day (18 October), the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism presented its fifteenth annual report on trafficking in, and smuggling of human beings.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication date: 03 October 2012
This research project undertaken by Prof. F. Caestecker (University College Ghent) investigates the policy towards international students and the extent to which third-country nationals used opportunities to study in Belgium during the last decade.
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Main theme: Study § Training
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: admission, education, mobility, student
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: 21 September 2012
On 5 April 2011, the European Union adopted Directive 2011/36/EU which sets out minimum standards to be applied throughout the European Union in preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting victims.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: definition, directive 2011/36/EU, penalties, prevention, prosecution, protection
Publication date: 20 September 2012
The Strategy, adopted on 19 June 2012, contains a set of concrete and practical measures that will support and complement the Directive 2011/36/EC whose deadline for transposition is 6 April 2013.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: identification, joint investigation, prosecution, protection, strategy
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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Publication date: 08 August 2012
This publication from the King Baudouin Foundation, reviews 22 projects building bridges between elderly migrants and existing services. Based on such experiences, tracks are identified to further involve elderly migrants in the society.
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Main theme: Migration, Integration, Vulnerable groups
Keywords: assistance, health care, senior migrant
Publication date: 08 August 2012
Nearly two-third of the foreigners living in EU Member States are citizens of countries outside the EU-27.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: citizenship, country of birth, non-EU national
Publication date: 07 August 2012
This article examines ways of better identifying the role of mid- and low-skilled migration in filling labour and skill shortages.