Publication date: 31 March 2011
Ad Hoc Query, requested on 3 November 2010 by the European Commission concerning the recognition of professional qualifications of third-country nationals in the member states - 15 responses
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: labour demand, skills recognition, third-country nationals
Publication date: 31 March 2011
Ad Hoc Query, requested by the Swedish NCP on 24 August 2010 concerning the issuing of EU Laissez-Passer for return of third country nationals - 20 responses
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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
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
What about the role demography could play in the research on the causes of international population movements? This Paper aims at analysing this role and also analyses the intersection of future demographic trends with possible labour market developments
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: ageing, demographic projections, demography, labour shortages, population decline
Publication date: 30 March 2011
How do you explain that children of the same family could assimilate in different ways? If the usual suspect variables ultimately do not explain assimilation at the individual level, what does?
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Main theme: Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: assimilation, peers, second-generation, Turkish Muslims
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
(01/06/2010) Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil) published its annual report 2009. 2009 was a difficult year, marked on the one hand by a considerable increase in asylum applications, on the other hand by a considerable growth of the reception capacity.
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Main theme: Reception
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: annual report, reception centre, reception crisis
Publication date: 28 March 2011
ECRE/ELENA-survey providing a comparative overview of the provision of legal aid for asylum seekers in Europe
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Opinion
Keywords: legal aid for asylum seekers
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
Publication date: 28 March 2011
Revised ECRE-guidelines on the treatment of still one of the most important ethnic groups of refugees in Europe
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Chechen refugees, Chechnya, IDP
Publication date: 22 March 2011
In this study the existence of, the policy on and the future options of temporary and circular migration in Belgium are examined.
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Main theme: External Dimension
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: circular migration, temporary migration
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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
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Publication date: 27 January 2011
Has the rise in immigrants'unemployment an impact on public finances? To what extent is the current slump having an impact on the employment of immigrants? And what are the factors depending on it?
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Publication date: 27 January 2011
This research, initiated by the IOM, aimed at better defining the profile of the Brazilian migrants residing in Ireland, Portugal and Belgium.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: Brazil, IOM, irregular resident
Publication date: 27 January 2011
The current volume of IMISCOE-AUP Textbook Series encompasses 25 theoretical papers that have an impact on research in Europe or reflect a European perspective on international migration and immigration integration.
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The Clandestino Project is a response to the need for supporting policy makers in designing and implementing appropriate policies regarding undocumented migration.
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Publication date: 25 January 2011
In the recent past some important changes ocurred within the agricultural sector in Flanders and Belgium. This research paper focuses on the consequences of these changes for the employment of migrants in the agricultural sector.
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Publication date: 19 January 2011
This quarterly Eurostat publication gives an insight into recent developments in international protection including applicants for asylum and decisions on asylum applications. These data are supplied to Eurostat by the national Ministries of Interior and related official agencies.
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum, asylum applications, asylum decisions, data in focus, Eurostat, first instance, gender, minors of age, outcomes
Publication date: 12 January 2011
This EMN Synthesis Report aims to summarise and compare, within a European perspective, the findings from nine National Contact Points (Austria, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Sweden, Netherlands and the United Kingdom) of the European Migration Network (EMN), on family reunification.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum outcomes, circulaire, family migration policy
Publication date: 28 December 2010
Over the project's lifetime, the project team investigated the scope, availability and comparability of quantitative data in the area of migration, integration and discrimination in Europe, studying available statistical data and data collection in 29 countries.