Publication date: 12 October 2011
The final version of the Synthesis Report for the EMN Study on ‘Temporary and Circular migration: empirical evidence, current policy practice and future options in EU Member States’ has now been launched
Read more
Main theme: Migration, Economic migration
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: temporary migration
Publication date: 06 October 2011
This EMN Synthesis Report provides an overall insight into the most significant political and legislative (including EU) developments, as well as public debates, in the area of migration and asylum in the 27 EMN National Contact Points plus Norway for 2010
Read more
Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Publication Type: Annual Policy Reports
Keywords: EU Migration Policy
Publication date: 03 October 2011
The new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) investigates the involvement of organized criminal groups in the smuggling of migrants from West Africa towards the European Union (EU).
Read more
Main theme: Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: criminal groups, smuggling of migrants
Publication date: 03 October 2011
The King Baudouin Foundation has organized between April 2010 to March 2011 different meetings gathering actors implicated by their personal or their professional background in the field of family reunification policies
Read more
Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: family migration policy
Publication date: 16 September 2011
The Think-Tank Itinera Institute analyses in its publication the new legal rules on family reunification in Belgium
Read more
Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: Family Reunification Directive, Immigrant integration, labour market
Publication date: 09 September 2011
The study of the Deloitte Belgium consultancy focuses on the immigration formalities for highly qualified workers from third countries in six European countries.
Read more
Main theme: Economic migration
Keywords: highly skilled workers, unskilled workers, work permit
Publication date: 08 September 2011
Climate change is a new driver of human migration and is expected by many to dwarf all others in its impact. This study was done by the Migration Policy Institute in coperation with the European University Institute.
Read more
Main theme: Vulnerable groups, International Protection, Migration
Keywords: climate change, migration
Publication date: 05 September 2011
In 2009, EU Member States issued about 2.3 million new residence permits to third country nationals, i.e. to non-EU citizens, a number that represents a decline of about
0.2 million compared with 2008.
Read more
Main theme: Economic migration, Family reunification, Study § Training, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: Eurostat, residence permit
Publication date: 26 August 2011
In this report a detailed overview is given of the Belgian legislation regarding citizenship.
Read more
Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Publication Type: Report
Publication date: 23 August 2011
Here you can find the list of available EMN ad hoc queries circulated between 2008 and 2011.
Read more
Main theme: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Publication date: 17 August 2011
The United Kingdom is seeing a growth in the use of ‘marriages of convenience’ as a way of obtaining the right to stay in the UK
Read more
Main theme: Family reunification, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: marriage of convenience
Publication date: 27 July 2011
In November 2010, the World Bank published the update of its factbook on migration and remittances
Read more
Main theme: Migration, Economic migration, External Dimension, Data & Statistics
Keywords: remittances, World Bank
Publication date: 20 July 2011
Joint publication of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM): an Inventory of Institutional Capacities and Practices
Read more
Main theme: Migration, Economic migration, External Dimension
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: Mediterranean Transit Migration (MTM)
Publication date: 30 June 2011
As part of the project "Improving EU and US Immigration Systems' Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges", this Paper focuses on how since 2005, we have moved away from purely instrumentalist concern with development as a way of pursuing goals of migration control.
Read more
Main theme: External Dimension, Migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: development, EU Migration Policy, migration control
Publication date: 23 June 2011
This is the Annual Report 2010 of the Belgian Immigration Office (Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken/Office des Etrangers)
Read more
Publication date:
How to promote the dignity of unaccompanied children, who find themselves alone, in a vulnerable situation, far from their home environment and separated from their parents?
Read more
Publication date: 17 June 2011
This Staff Working Paper of the European Commission is accompanying the Commission Communication to the EP and the Council, within the framework of the Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum 2010
Read more
Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: annual report, EU Migration Policy
Publication date: 17 June 2011
EMN presents its synthesis report of the EMN study ‘Satisfying Labour Demand through Migration ’. Source of this publication are the different national studies, carried out in 2010 by the National Contact Points (NCP's) of the EMN.
Read more
Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: EMN Reports & Studies
Keywords: highly skilled workers, labour migration policy, labour shortages, low-skilled workers, mobility, work permit
Publication date: 15 June 2011
Ad hoc query, requested on April 14, 2011 by the European Commission concerning the conditions of acquiring citizenship in the different Member States of the European Union. 22 responses
Read more
Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: citizenship, Zambrano
Publication date: 01 June 2011
Publication of the UNHCR: Legal and Protection Policy Research Series
Read more
Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Asylum, International Protection, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: alternatives to detention, detention
Publication date: 25 May 2011
Ad hoc query, requested on February 23, 2011 by the Belgian NCP concerning methods to determine the origin of irregular migrants by language analyses. 16 responses
Read more
Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Publication date: 25 May 2011
Ad hoc query, requested by the Swedish NCP concerning the possibilities for third-country students to remain in a European Union Member State after completing their studies in the EU. 20 responses
Read more
Main theme: Economic migration, Study § Training
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: student migration
Publication date: 25 May 2011
Ad hoc query, requested on February 16, 2011, by the Dutch NCP concerning foreign national passports, sent by mail to the holder or a family member (so-called 'blank passports'). 16 responses
Read more
Main theme: Borders & Visa
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Publication date: 25 May 2011
Ad hoc query, requested on April 18, 2011 by the Hungarian NCP concerning marriages of convenience in the European Union. 18 responses
Read more
Main theme: Family reunification, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: marriage of convenience
Publication date: 20 May 2011
The Annual Risk Analysis Report of EU Agency FRONTEX, in charge for the coordination of the operational cooperation between Member States in the field of border security