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The European Migration Network (EMN) Glossary is an essential resource, which offers an EU-wide multidisciplinary vocabulary of approximately 500 terms and concepts related to asylum and migration. Let's focus today on the term "access to employment" to make sure we have a common understanding and use of the term!
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: access to work, access to employment, labour market access, labour market integration
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The European Migration Network organizes a webinar to present its recently published study on "Integration of applicants for international protection in the labour market". Limitations, challenges and good practices will be highlighted and discussed.
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: labour market integration, applicant for international protection
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At a meeting of the Council’s permanent representatives committee (COREPER), Member States sealed their negotiating mandate on a regulation on crisis situations, including instrumentalisation of migration, and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum. This position will form the basis of negotiations between the Council presidency and the European Parliament.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: crisis regulation, migration instrumentalization, solidarity, relocation, New Pact on Migration and Asylum
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This conference organised by the French Contact Point of the EMN will focus on resettlement programmes, legal complementary pathways and the integration of resettled refugees.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: resettlement, humanitarian admission
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During the Justice and Home Affairs Council today, Ministers inter alia supported the need to strengthen the external dimension of EU migration policy in order to face the migratory challenges the EU shares with other continents and countries.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: EU Migration Policy, New Pact on Migration and Asylum, crisis regulation, temporary protection
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This capacity-building workshop will bring together representatives of international organisations, EU agencies, Member States, and academia to provide opportunities for exchanges and discussions on the current state of forecasting models in migration, and to present any ongoing projects or initiatives related to the use of technologies in migration and asylum governance.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: forecasting, migration governance, technologies
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For 10 years now, the Duo for a Job association has aimed inter alia to help eliminate inequalities in access to the labour market for young people with a migrant background. Results are conclusive as seven out of ten young people successfully find a stable job, an internship or training that leads them to the job they initially wanted.
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: labour market access, mentoring
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The Belgian Contact Point to the European Migration Network is looking for an intern to support the team in its mission, including in the framework of the 2024 Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU. If you want to expand your knowledge on asylum and migration topics as well as your network in this field, this opportunity may be for you!
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: internship
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The Ombudsman is asking whether the Commission conducted a human rights impact assessment before signing the agreement, if periodic reviews will be conducted during implementation, and if there are criteria for suspending funding in case of human rights violations.
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Main theme: External Dimension
Keywords: fundamental rights, Tunisia, irregular migration
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The organisation reports a huge increase in the number of vulnerable young asylum seekers who disappear in Belgium. The number of disappearances could double this year, compared to 2022 which had 136 cases.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups
Keywords: unaccompanied minors, disappearance
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In her 2023 State of the Union Address, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, focused inter alia on migration issues. She underlined that an agreement on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum has never been so close.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: New Pact on Migration and Asylum, human smuggling, human trafficking, temporary protection
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Today, the European Migration Network (EMN) Belgium was invited to present the results of an upcoming publication to members of the Flemish Agency for Internal Affairs as well as to take part in a coordination meeting between the four integration contact points in Belgium (for Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels, and the German-speaking community).
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: integration contact point, integration monitoring
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The European Union Agency for Asylum just released the latest asylum trends for the period January - June 2023. During the first half of 2023, applications for asylum rose to 519.000, a 28 % increase compared to the first half of 2022. As a result of the increase, many EU+ countries are under pressure with processing applications and protecting those in need.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, asylum figures
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The Federal Institute is tasked with regularly examining the situation of persons deprived of their liberty through preventive visits, making recommendations to the competent authorities and proposing legislation and verifying its compatibility with international standards.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: detention, human rights, closed centre
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As the Big Data for Migration Alliance unveils the “Harnessing Data Innovation for Migration Policy: A Handbook for Practitioners”, the Egmont Institute organizes the handbook launch to discover how non-traditional data sources shape migration understanding.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: data ethics, data protection, data governance
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In a national study released in July 2023, EMN Belgium reviews the Belgian policy and practice regarding detention and alternatives to detention. The study clarifies which detention places and alternatives to detention exist in Belgium, how the decision-making process unfolds and how detention and its alternatives are actually implemented.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: detention, alternative to detention
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According to data on first residence permits published by Eurostat, almost 3,7 million first residence permits were issued in the EU to non-EU citizens in 2022, a 26% increase (+753 445 permits) compared with 2021. This figure does not include persons granted authorization to reside and benefiting from temporary protection status for which statistics are collected under a separate data collection framework.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: first residence permit
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As part of his “Turbo Plan”, Flemish Minister for the Interior and Civic Integration, Bart Somers (Open VLD) wants newly-arrived third-country nationals without a high school diploma to undergo training in order to be able to practice a bottleneck profession. This training would be part of the civic integration programme.
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: civic integration programme, shortage occupation, on-the-job training
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This call for expression of interest is open to all civil society organisations that have experience in the topic "Migrants in Europe today: specific needs, skills and communication for stronger inclusion". They should complete the application form by 14 September.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: European Migration Forum
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In a new article published today, the Migration Policy Institute reviews definitions of climate migration and questions the value of such a definition. It explores the difficulties of distinguishing climate migrants from other kinds of economic or humanitarian migrants, particularly in low- and lower-middle-income countries, and it highlights that the populations most vulnerable to climate change are often those who cannot migrate.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: environmental migrants, climate refugee, climate migrant
The EU and Tunisia agree to implement a "comprehensive strategic partnership" including on migration
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Today, Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi and Secretary of State of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, Mounir Ben Rjiba, signed a memorandum of understanding covering macro-economic stability, trade and investment, green energy transition, people-to-people contacts, and migration.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: memorandum of understanding, partnership, Tunisia
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The CGRS has published the asylum figures for June 2023. The Immigration Office registered 2,740 applicants for international protection. Another 15 persons were registered in the framework of resettlement. As a result, the total number of applicants in June is 2,755.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: asylum figures
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On the occasion of World Population Day, Eurostat states that, after a decline in population in 2020 and 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU’s population increased in 2022. The negative natural change (more deaths than births) was outnumbered by the positive net migration.
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Main theme: Data & Statistics
Keywords: population growth
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During this conference, experts will discuss the implementation and efficiency of national and EU law on identifying and consequently combatting incidents of xenophobia and hate speech in Cyprus and in other European countries.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: hate speech
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As Spain takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1st July until 31 December 2023, the Spanish Presidency has established its priorities and main directions. The Spanish presidency inter alia faces the challenge of finalising the Migration and Asylum Pact.