Publication date: 28 June 2012
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism presented today its fifth Annual Report on Migration, with data and analysis on different migration topics (international protection, the right to family life, return, ...)
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Regularization, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: annual report
Publication date: 18 June 2012
The UNHCR 2011 Global Trends report has been published today. The report analyses the statistical trends and changes in the global populations of concern to UNHCR, i.e. refugees, returnees, stateless persons and certain groups of internally displaced persons (IDPs).
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Data & Statistics, Asylum
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: UNHCR, Statistics, global trends
Publication date: 05 June 2012
On 5 June 2012, the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons presented its annual report for the reference year 2011.
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Publication date: 31 May 2012
This yearbook presents a comprehensive selection of statistical data on Europa, including the statistics on migration and migrant population. Most data cover te period 1999-2009 for the European Union and its Member States.
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Publication date: 29 May 2012
This publication of the European Parliament shows the number of asylum seekers, where they seek asylum and where they come from as well as the number of first instance decisions on asylum in 2011
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Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
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Itinera Institute published a number of papers on its website on the occassion of its conference "Integration: what’s in a name? Going beyond multiculturalism for immigration nation Belgium".
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: citizenship
Publication date: 10 May 2012
Is migration a major factor behind the rise of the radical right? Do higher levels of immigration automatically correlate to more votes for radical-right parties? This report focuses on the effects of migration on political extremism in North America, Western Europe and central and Eastern Europe
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Main theme: Migration, Integration
Keywords: Nationalism, xenophobia
Publication date: 09 May 2012
The Immigrant Citizens Survey (ICS), piloted by the King Baudouin Foundation and the Migration Policy Group is the first transnational survey that is directly relevant for policy-makers in many areas of integration at local, national and European level.
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: immigrant Citizen Survey
Publication date: 07 May 2012
This Handbook for policymakers and practitioners in home and host countries gives concrete examples of policies and programs that have been effective, and pulls out both useful lessons and common challenges associated with the topics at hand.
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Main theme: External Dimension
Keywords: Brain circulation, remittances
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The annual report describes how Fedasil in 2011 was faced with the saturation of the reception structures. The annual report provides an overview of developments in terms of arrivals, capacity and complement.
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Publication date: 03 May 2012
The Center for the study of democracy presents a handbook within the project “Integrating Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children in the Educational Systems of EU Member States: Evaluation and Promotion of Current Best Practices” – INTEGRACE.
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Publication date: 03 May 2012
The European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality requested this study.
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Publication date: 03 May 2012
In a globalised economic environment, labour mobility both within the EU and between the
EU and the rest of the world is a growing reality and necessity. Social security coordination is
a system of rules aimed at facilitating such mobility.
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Main theme: Economic migration, External Dimension
Keywords: labour mobility, bilateral agreements, common approach
Publication date: 16 April 2012
This report – Belgian Policy Report on Asylum and Migration 2011 – gives an overview of developments and changes that have occured in Belgium in the field of migration and asylum in the reference year.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports
Keywords: migration policy
Publication date: 02 April 2012
Miet Lamberts, researcher at the Research Institute for Work and Society (HIVA center) of the KU Leuven offers an analyzis of the immigration data in Flanders for the year 2011. It gives a specific point of view on how the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generations of migrants take part in the Flamish society.
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Main theme: Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: Immigrant integration, integration monitor
Publication date: 26 March 2012
The sociologist Christian Joppke examines the delicate balance that states face in promoting policies that are aggressive enough to further social cohesion yet restrained enough to respect immigrants’ moral autonomy.
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Publication date: 19 March 2012
The Political scientist Randall Hansen has published his study for the Transatlantic Council on Migration. He studied complementary about immigration and integration in Europe.
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Main theme: Economic migration, Integration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: employment, Immigrant integration
Publication date: 19 March 2012
The political philosopher Will Kymlicka published his research for the Transatlantic Council on Migration. He studied what he calls the "central myths" about multiculturalist policies and provided evidence on related achievements.
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Publication date: 15 March 2012
Peter H. van der Laan, Monika Smit, Inge Busschers and Pauline Aarten have published their study for the Campbell Collaboration. It focuses on cross-border trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and prostitution.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: cross-border crime, victims of human trafficking
Publication date: 29 February 2012
The Belgian Federal Agency for Reception of Asylum Seekers presents the statistics of voluntary returns performed from Belgium in 2011.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission, Data & Statistics
Keywords: migration statistics, voluntary return
Publication date: 28 February 2012
This Council Statement results from the meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration in November 2011 in Berlin (MPI) and provides key recommendations for fostering greater cohesiveness.
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Publication date: 22 February 2012
In this new publication, M. Maes, M.-C. Foblets and Ph. De Bruycker provide an analysis of the dynamic relationship of the external dimensions of EU asylum and migration policies.
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Publication date: 15 February 2012
The study generates a checklist which aims to assist Member States in developing their processes for considering the return of children informed by national good practices.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Return & Readmission
Keywords: Directive retour
Publication date: 08 February 2012
This Eurostat publication provides an overview of asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications for the second quarter of 2011.
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Main theme: Asylum, International Protection, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, Eurostat
Publication date: 01 February 2012
Gallup’s ongoing World Poll surveys in more than 150 countries. The Many Faces of Global Migration report is an introduction to what Gallup has learned by asking migrants and potential migrants themselves about their lives.