Publication date: 03 January 2013
This EMN Inform provides a short overview of the main developments that took place in the EU in 2011 in response to increasing migratory pressure and specifically in relation to the six strategic priority areas of the EU Action on Migratory Pressure.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission, External Dimension
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: border management, migration management, mobility partnership, readmission agreement
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
The Global Report 2012 provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels. The report also includes a chapter on the worldwide response to trafficking in persons and country profiles for each of the 132 countries covered by this edition.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: trafficking case, definition, prosecution, detection
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: 07 December 2012
The edition provides a summary of IOM's regional strategies and presents IOM's responses and funding needs according to key thematic areas which all aim to enhance migration's positive impact on development.
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Main theme: Migration, External Dimension
Keywords: human developpement, high-level dialogue en migration and development
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: 31 October 2012
This publication focuses on Brazilian migrants who have resided in Belgium and who
returned to Brazil through the system of voluntary return. The thesis investigates if and how
these returnees become actors of development in their home region in Brazil.
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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: 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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Following the report published by the IFRC, over 70 million people are forced migrants, more than 1 in every 100 of the world's citizens, displaced by conflict, political upheaval, violence and disasters but also by climate change and development projects.
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: protection
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: 07 September 2012
2011 stands out not only for the migration dynamics that have flowed into, out of and within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, but also for the unprecedented social movements that have transformed the political culture. IOM addresses challenges and oppportunites experienced in 2011.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Migration
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: MENA region, migration management, assistance, AVRR, crisis
Publication date: 22 August 2012
The Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) 2011 Annual Report outlines IOM’s work carried out during 2011 in the areas of AVRR and `Post-Arrival and Reintegration Assistance` (PARA).
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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
This paper provides a statistical assessment of migration before and after the uprisings in the Southern Mediterranean and reviews European and Arab state policies regarding migration. It also encourages the factoring of the outcomes of the Arab Spring within migration policies.
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Main theme: Migration, Data & Statistics
Keywords: migration policy, refugee crisis, Mediterranean region, democracy
Publication date: 08 August 2012
This chapter recently published in "Arab Society in Revolt" reviews demographic trends and asks to what extent immigration can help in addressing demographic challenges. It focus on the Arab Mediterranean region, interpreting emigration and revolt as two possible responses of the young.