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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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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: immigration law
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Myria, the Belgian Federal Migration Centre, is recruiting a policy officer to work for the Belgian Contact Point of the European Migration Network (EMN).
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: job vacancy
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On 12 December 2018, the Belgian contact point of the EMN organized its annual asylum and migration policy event in which recent national and EU developments in the field of international protection, legal migration and integration and irregular migration, human trafficking and return were discussed.
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Main theme: Integration, Reception, International Protection, Return & Readmission, Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: annual EMN policy event
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The ChildMove project represents a unique attempt to follow young refugees and migrants as they travel from Libya and Turkey to European shores and onwards, and to allow young people themselves to speak of what it means to be on the move.
Join the Migration Policy Institute Europe and Ghent University for a morning coffee and discussion of this ground-breaking study of the experiences of young refugees and migrants who have travelled across Europe, unaccompanied by their families
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups
Keywords: unaccompanied minors
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Europol launched a new report about child trafficking. It provides a comprehensive view on who the victims are and who the criminal networks are that trafficking the children in and into the EU.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: child victim of trafficking
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The Intergovernmental Conference to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration takes place in Marrakech, Morocco on the 10th and 11th of December 2018
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Main theme: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Keywords: United Nations
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In his State of the Union, President Jean-Claude Juncker presented proposals to ensure full EU solidarity on migration and better protection of Europe's external borders. The Commission is proposing to reinforce the European Border and Coast Guard and the EU's Agency for Asylum and is proposing a targeted review of the Return Directive.
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Main theme: External Dimension, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Keywords: return directive, State of the Union, EUAA, EBCG
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This conference will provide an opportunity to exchange good practices used in creating and maintaining partner relations between diasporas and their countries of origin acknowledging the important role they have in their countries’ development.
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Main theme: External Dimension
Keywords: diaspora
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In 2018, the annual Metropolis conference will take place in Sydney from 29 October to 2 November. The theme for this year’s conference is 'Global Migration in Turbulent Times'.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: metropolis
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This year seminar will be focused on vulnerabilities of migrants in the current global migration context.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: Slovakia
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This conference will seek to discuss global migration trends, the role of the EU, as well as the external dimensions of the EU migration policy.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: Austria
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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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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: socioeconomic monitoring, labour market
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Eurostat published a statistical analysis on the number of unaccompanied minors who applied for international protection in 2017. the 31,400 applications represent an important decrease compared to previous years.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, International Protection
Keywords: unaccompanied minors
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In 2018, the European Migration Network (EMN) celebrates its 10 year anniversary. On this occasion, the EMN organized a conference on 15 May in Brussels.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: anniversary, EMN conference
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The panel discussion will present the findings of the recently completed research project of the European Foundation for Democracy which examined how different European countries with high numbers of refugees and/or experience of integrating high numbers of refugees are managing the integration process and identifies good practices for integrating refugees. The research looked in particular at the situation of Syrian refugees in Europe, though not exclusively.
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Main theme: Integration
Keywords: Immigrant integration
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Commissioner Avramopoulos has congratulated the EMN on it's approaching 10th anniversary in a speech.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: European Commission
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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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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: family reunification right
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This interesting conference is organised by the German Contact Point of the EMN. It aims to bring together policy-makers, academics and actors from NGOs and administration in Germany and at EU-level. Therefore, the conference covers a wide range of topics ranging from the arrival of unaccompanied minors to the transition to adulthood.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups
Keywords: unaccompanied minors
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The 15th IMISCOE Annual Conference will take place in Barcelona, 2 - 4 July 2018. The conference covers the theme "Europe, migrations and the Mediterranean: human mobilities and intercultural challenges".
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
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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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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: Training
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This conference is entitled 'Sustainable migrration from poor to rich countries - Towards a new refugee and migration system?'. It will address the challenges and sustainability of today’s migration. There is a growing call for a more holistic and sustainable approach to migration policy.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
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At the height of the refugee “crisis” in October 2015, over 7,000 asylum seekers crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece per day. This created problematic conditions for refugees in reception centers and overwhelmed Greece as a first country of entry to the EU. In this setting, the EU-Turkey Statement was concluded with the aim of managing migration across the Aegean Sea and curbing arrivals to the EU. Whilst the Statement was effective in reducing the number of arrivals, it has been met with a series of human rights concerns.
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Main theme: External Dimension
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The European Commission proposes to reform the EU's common visa policy. It also reports on - and calls for - further progress under the European Agenda on Migration. Finally it mobilises additional funding for Syrian refugees in Turkey.
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Main theme: External Dimension, Migration
Keywords: European Agenda on Migration, visa code, Turkey
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This portal allows any user – whether analyst, scientist, policymaker or interested citizen – to discover a wealth of migration information including data sources, relevant websites, stakeholder organisations, projects, networks and forums related to migration flows, trends and their impact on societies across the EU.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
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The Odysseus Annual Conference 2018 is entitled 'Conflict and Compromises between Law and Politics in EU Migration and Asylum Policies' as 2017 has been marked by several rulings of the Court of Justice in extremely sensitive cases.